• Deceptichum@quokk.au
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      7 hours ago

      I know it’s a joke and all, but “white” people have been in the a Middle East since before Jesus.

      You can find the whitest people you know even as far as Xinjiang in modern day China and they arrived there thousands of years ago BCE.

      Genetics are not defined to one area unless cut off from all ability for a population pool to travel/leave. We’re gradients of features that don’t fit nicely into geopolitical borders.

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          7 hours ago

          Sorry, can you please explain?

          I just wanted to use the moment to educate about how race doesn’t exist and that you can find pale skinned redheads with blue eyes living in the Middle East and historically for a long time.

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            6 hours ago

            thats fair im sure, but its definitely not the norm, so suggesting the “most important person of all time” (for believers etc) was likely white is just not a good look in my opinion (just my opinion, maybe it is what do I know)

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              6 hours ago

              Oh yeah no sorry I’m not suggesting Jesus was white. He would have looked like the average Jewish/Semetic person at the time.