The Evolution of Scientific Racism

Aristotle was one of the first people to try and create a biological Taxonomy of animals sorting them into categories and species. Aristotle couldn't resist taking his research beyond you know the fact that wolves and dogs looked like they might be related and extending it to creating taxonomies of governments and of human beings. It's not fair to call Aristotle a racist in the same way we think of a guy like David Duke because obviously the idea of whiteness hadn't been invented yet. His categories weren't based on anything we recognize as race by the modern sort of definitions of racism but it had an impact on everything that descended after it.