/lit/ - Literature

The fact that this entire debate got centered around the prevalence of certain phenotypes in ancient Rome is retarded. Rome was diverse. The problem is that the series presented every historical European civilization as being racially mixed

>>9839825
I'm not qualified to argue this point. I'm still trying to get my Latin down. But the "whitification of the Irish" argument employed by modern sociologists to demonstrate how race is "constructed" is mostly bullshit revisionist history.

>>9839836
A modern projection of society onto the past is exactly what OP is arguing against. The BBC series features black Anglo-Saxons, black Celts, and black Normans. The evidence shows that Rome wasn't exclusively white, but that doesn't mean that including black characters in nearly every scene that depicts every period of European civilization is accurate.