> One reason is that people might feel closer to something that they think superficially resembles themselves. I agree! And then they proceeded to spread that

> One reason is that people might feel closer to something that they think superficially resembles themselves. I agree! And then they proceeded to spread that image throughout the world (commonly via imperial colonialism) as "god looks like me, not you". That closely aligns with the concept of systemic racism. > Plus it seems strange to me that ...the most offensive or historically inaccurate thing is... "Most" is a strawman. We don't need to start assigning gold/silver/bronze medals to badness in order to recognize that it's bad and work to change it.