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I will never under how Conservatives, especially Christian Conservatives don't recognize that homosexual and bisexual actions were literally introduced in the very 1st book of the Bible. It has always, always been here.

I just finished the Alexander the Great series. I'm sure he was what we called bisexual, but as you pointed out, people just had sex. With whoever and whatever. They just didn't see it the way we do.

Lastly, I've read tons of old writing. The only time I ever see race applied is in a territorial way. As in, he came from the area of Libya or something. Or, when talking about the ways of this or that people. From what I can tell, they were always using MLK Jr.'s thought and treating people based on their character.

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Pretty much was the case, yeah. There was ingroup/outgroup everywhere, as there always is, and occasionally (as in the case of blood feuds) you'd get the identification of the group with its members in a categorical sense that we would recognize as racism, but most of the time, in most places, people were ideintified with their nation or tribe and the differences between the way X tribe and Y tribe did things would be mostly a source of humor and/or derision that was trumped by the quality of an individual, as learned through experience with that person.

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