And then he had come to New College as a history major, where his classes and his assigned readings revealed a more nuanced Middle Ages—a version that contradicted much of what Derek read on Stormfront. If European whites were really a genetically superior race, then why had Europe lagged so far behind Islamic culture in technology, art, and science for much of the Middle Ages? Why was it Baghdad that had become the world’s largest and greatest city in the ninth and tenth centuries—a place with superior doctors and libraries, where pale-skinned European emissaries were sent to learn from
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