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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by JoshuaConnerMoon: [qb] If you read the [i]full[/i] quote from Gliddon you get the proper context- "The Egyptians were white men, of no darker hue than a [b]pure Arab, a Jew, or a Phoenician[/b]." The Arabs, Jews, Phoenicians are light brown skinned, not white. That's why he uses those examples of Arab or Jews, rather than say Celts or Germanics.[/qb][/QUOTE]So what? Europeans can have the same colors as Jews and Jews have frequently worked to attain whiteness (and largely succeeded). IDK How there's still debate, he called them "white men." He referred to AE by a label or identity that not only involves Europeans, but has always been Eurocentric. "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" "The Egyptians were white men" Get it yet? HE SAID THAT! Stop trying to revise history, he said they were WHITE! Academic use of the words Caucasoid, Eurasian etc do the same thing: Bring European identity or whiteness into the discussion of Egypt. [/qb][/QUOTE]You're distorting the quote. My point was no one has ever said the ancient Egyptians were white [i]skinned[/i] and that quote confirms this. [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm not distorting the quote. He said AE were white. No one HAS to argue the Egyptians were literally white skinned to argue they were white and connected to modern Europeans. Many white people are not literally white skinned. White people can for example have olive complexions. [QUOTE][qb]Gliddon likens AE pigmentation to east Mediterranean populations, who are light brown. The term "white men" has no reference to skin colour, in correct context Gliddon is using it as a synonym for Caucasian.[/qb] [/QUOTE]Which is still Eurocentric and interchangeable in language with European. The Egyptians did not come from Eurasia, the Caucus mountains or the European peninsula. [QUOTE][qb]The simple point I made is no scholar has ever said AE's had white skin in the sense of actual "white" (light-pink) as observed at highest frequency in northern Europeans. The claim ancient Egyptians were white (pigmentation) is an Afrocentric straw man. [/qb][/QUOTE]Eurocentrism [b]does not require people to say AE/K had WHITE skin or even light pink.[/b] This is a strawman YOU keep using. Eurocentrism does not require people to say the Egyptians had features most common to Northern Europeans. It simply means that a person is trying to describe the origins of AE in a way that involves Europeans or to support other racist political interests Eurocentrism supports such as Africa being incapable of independence. For example, Eurasians is a loaded term that tries to create a fictional identity that involves Europeans. "Caucasoid" tries to claim certain features to whites and attributes them to an identity that again includes Europeans. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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