Reply #58: "The English thought the Irish were inferior for religious regions hence they could be exploited"

[Hannah Bell]

wrong way round. when people want to use others, they invent reasons to justify it.

plenty of examples where there was no racial or religious difference, but the phenomenon we associate with "racism" still occurred, & similar specious reasons invented to justify it.

Burakumin in japan = a caste of people who look just like japanese, speak japanese, practice japanese religions, *are* japanese - but were subject to all the discriminatory measures linked to "racism" here, save outright slavery, & the system of discrimination was held in place by the state "family registration" system, so they couldn't just move & "pass". and still is, though to a lesser extent.

State systems, esp. imperial ones, need an underclass to do the shitwork, & produce it through a variety of means.

When the institutional supports for such beliefs disappear, the practices disappear within a few generations.