• HeroHelck@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    17 hours ago

    I don’t really understand what you’re trying to say. In this context “fascistic” is a descriptive/indexical term not trying to literally say “the ideological form of facism we understand nowadays arose directly from the legal code of Solon of Athens.”.

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      16 hours ago

      In your first comment, you said:

      but it’s not going to be easy to convince people that a many thousand year old narrative is “wrong”.

      So which narrative are you referring to? Is there really a narrative that is many thousand years old? Or are you saying that the narrative is about many thousand years? Your comment reads like the idea that democracy is invented in Athens (and therefore by white Europeans) is many thousand years old which doesn’t make much sense to me.

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        3 hours ago

        Is there really a narrative that is many thousand years old?

        Yeah I’d say the Athenian political narrative had mostly matured no later than Demosthenes. Obviously it’s been interpreated and re-interpreted, and twisted and turned into all sorts of purposes, but the broad strokes have largely been taught the same in Europe since then.