History Repeats Itself

[tormentedhusk]

 

[DTA]

"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."

 

[tormentedhusk]

"Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order."

 

[obligatoryshackles]

"Oppressed people will always deface the symbols of their oppression when given the chance" is not a particularly hot take.

 

[SVEN]

Because we do not learn its' lessons.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

"Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order."

Oh great! Now we have user's on here unrionically quoting Hitler./s

I don't know how to break it to you, but race is a social construct. This is the general consensus amongst researchers. The human race cannot be further divided into subspecies. Humans actually aren't that genetically diverse, especially when compared to other great ape species.

Race is a social construct, just like other things, such as currency. Racial categories are arbitrary and have changed throughout history. For example, it is only recently in history that the Irish are now seen as white. Before, the definition of "white" was something alongside of "every person of European descent, except the Irish". If we go even further back, we can also see that most humans in past would have divided themselves based on other things, such as religion/faith, the empire they came from, their tribe, etc since race wasn't a thing throughout most of human history.

Basically, "racial" decay isn't a thing. Race does not exist on a biological level. Get your racist Hilter-loving ass out of here, bud.

"Oppressed people will always deface the symbols of their oppression when given the chance" is not a particularly hot take.

You and I may have the common sense needed to understand this as oppressed people defacing symbols of their oppression, but this dude seems to think differently on the matter, lol.