Comments by "" (@jimakisspd) on "A Day In The Life Of A White Slave In The Ottoman Empire" video.

When you read a video title talking about any historical subject and divides human groups into ''whites'' or ''blacks'' or anything of colour instead in terms of religion or ethnicity, you know for sure that the video is made by an American or generally a man from Anglo-speaking countries. Cause in Western and North European countries(like Germany, Scandinavian, Belgium etc) even at their most racist periods, ethnicity and nationality came above race and race was mostly used as a scientific term that could potentially analyse civilizations of different nations based on racialism. Not to mention that for Eastern European countries, the balkans or Asians, Africans and other continents, religion and ethnicity played and still play the role of a more important factors than race of any kind and they rarely ever translate race in terms of ''colour''. Skin colour(whether white or black) is a physical trait that is taken for granted by most people and in no way does his skin colour define his identity, nationality or culture like in the USA.
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@tmcd237 ''its not as massive or as brutal'' As massive?? Dude the Ottoman empire in the 16th century alone is estimated to have 20% of its population enslaved. And we are talking about an empire that reached about 50 millions of population in its peak. Unlike western countries in the 18th century who started changing their economic means during the 18th century replacing slaves with wage workers because the system in the west started to become more and more capitalistic, the Ottoman empire still based most of its economy on slavery. Also care to translate what ''as brutal'' means for you?? How exactly do you measure brutality in terms of quantity?? How exactly would a Serbian, Greek or Bulgarian christian slave suffer any less if he was forced to work in mines with flogging or could be beheaded and tortured with cutting his arms in case of disobedience or would he suffer any less if an Ottoman aya or pasha decided to take his son never to see him again so that he would become janissarie or have his wife taken in chains for harems where the pasha could rape them anytime for his pleasure(I can name you THOUSANDS of historical example of how such things happened, we also have the so-called neo-martyrs in our Greek orthodox tradition)?? How would these women slaves suffer any less than the black ones?? Is there a more or ''less'' brutal rape according to you?? And if the above aren't enough to make up your mind, while in America during 1860s, slavery was officially banned, in 1914-1922 in both the Ottoman Empire and the modern Turkish state(yeah the one that is still in NATO), Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and other Christian groups(countring MILLIONS of them) suffered an open genocide, most dying with direct tortures and executions, others being drowned in the sea, and others for forced labour until dying through malnutrition. But of course you are not going to be taught the above, cause Turkey has always been your US government's favourite ally. So don't try to be apologetic to your cognitive dissonance, learn history outside your textbooks about other countries and see reality outside the box of racialisation of everything that you've grown up with in America.
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@Meloncholymadness Can't you people in the USA(both blacks and whites) simply read history and understand other civilizations outside your American-centric viewpoint of bringing up blackness and whiteness into literally ANYTHING?? I am Greek, Greece was slave to the ottoman empire but for the balkans as well as Anatolia or the middle east, ''whiteness or blackness' of your skin defined and still defines nothing in our history but a physical trait of your body, like your eye or hair colour. It's more ethnicity and religion that defines us rather than skin colour and in the case of the Ottoman empire, slavery was mostly religion-based and not racial at all. A black-skinned muslim(though there weren't many blacks in the ottoman empire) would be more privileged or even a slave-owner compared to a white-skinned christian who would be slave and this could potentially work vice versa.
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