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What's Russian for "Dog Whistle?"

And the point stands, because the arbitrary definition of Europe has been done in such a way to exclude non-white countries.

The first recorded usage of Eurṓpē as a geographic term is in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, in reference to the western shore of the Aegean Sea. As a name for a part of the known world, it is first used in the 6th century BCE by Anaximander and Hecataeus. Anaximander placed the boundary between Asia and Europe along the Phasis River (the modern Rioni River on the territory of Georgia) in the Caucasus, a convention still followed by Herodotus in the 5th century BCE.[28] Herodotus mentioned that the world had been divided by unknown persons into three parts, Europe, Asia and Libya (Africa), with the Nile and the Phasis forming their boundaries—though he also states that some considered the River Don, rather than the Phasis, as the boundary between Europe and Asia.[29] Europe's eastern frontier was defined in the 1st century by geographer Strabo at the River Don.[30] The Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from Northwest Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.[31]​

In creating these divisions, it should be clear to us now that those ancient Greeks and Hebrews were just as obsessed with 'whiteness' as the 16th century slave societies which invented the concept :unsure: The notion that the delineation of 'Europe' might have had something to do with the fact that continental plates were not even theorized let alone confirmed until the past century is obviously absurd!

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