The medieval motif is the last vestige of white supremacy

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'White supremacist' is just a tool to silence criticism. Somebody says something 'incorrect' you don't wanna hear, you yell 'white supremacist!!' and that's it.

It's nothing new.

Before that, people has yelled 'fascist!', or 'nazi!' to silence critics. Or 'communist!'. Or 'jew lover!'. Or 'heresy!', or 'misbeliever!', or 'devil worshipper!'. To name a few.

Of course, nowadays somebody pointing at you while yelling 'misbeliever!' just raises a laugh, Church has no power anymore... but imagine it a couple of centuries ago, no fun with it, back then.

Movies create a strange distortion. In movies, the underdog is the hero, the guy that goes against the herd is the one that looks nicer. In real life, on the contrary, many people join the herd because that gives them power and status. You yell whatever sacred word works in your time (misbeliever! back then, white supremacist! now) and that gives you power over other people. Watch this thread: he yells, you can't, you need to argue.

In movies, the sanctimonious yelling 'misbeliever!' looks ridiculous. Often, he's being portrayed in a ridiculous way. Movies create that strange distortion that makes us believe that puritans were ridiculous and despised petty men. Actually, they had power and status, and they were puritans because that gave them power and status.

No, it’s argument to the person all the same: you haven’t been graduated from high school, ergo, you know nothing. The argument ignores self-education, home schooling or blind luck. A lucky guess can still be the correct answer, just as a stopped clock is right twice a day, which is more than what most politicians can boast. This is why Platonic discourse demands an argument TO THE ARGUMENT and not to the person who is making the argument. It may indeed be tempting and satisfying to say, “You’re a lying sack of feces AND you like comic book movies,” but that doesn’t repudiate her/his argument—though we may wish it did!

Much better. I only insult when I believe posters are playing dumb or doubling down on what they know is incorrect.

The original topic wasn't about Moors, but the black presence in Medieval Europe. The reality is that throughout history, humans migrated around the world, traded with each other, waged warfare in different territories and intermarried. There were Europeans in Africa and Africans in Europe since antiquity. ALL people migrated.

"Black Muslims from Africa too? Sure, but a low number."
My point was that there was a black and brown presence in Europe which the OP was unaware.

Anyway during that era, the world was dominated by the Ottoman Empire, Persia, India and China which represented 80% of the world's economy and 2/3 of production. Europe didn't gain dominance until later.

BTW, Arab-Americans were upset that the government was classifying them as white on the census. Obviously, they are diversified racially. In the 2020 census, they will have a category that says Arab-American.