Or maybe they had sex, interbred, and nobody cared until some white anthropologist from an elitist school came along.

But at least racial hatred lives on – not least in your comment.

Replace the word white with Jewish and maybe you’ll realize how fucked up your belief system is

I assume you are from the US with little knowledge of history. Neander (ever wondered where the Neanderthals got their name from) was German. Early anthropologists were German or French. So yes, early anthropologists were all (really) white Europeans.

BTW I'm actually surprised you wouldn't think of Jews as "white". But I'm not familiar with US American raceology. Are you from the white supremacy fraction?

But all of this misses the point of my statement.

Well... if it is any solace to you, as time moved forward the way we valued life, saw mortality and death in ouraelves and others, what we value, has changed.

People were violent and death was a much more normal thing.

When we look at it in modern time with all our accumulated knowledge we seek to not cause it. Even tyranical and psycotic individuals hold nihlistic or anarchic philosphies.

Truely to understand the worlds pardigm change over history is multifaceted in regard to demographics, and skills aquired, and scarcites and suppluses come into effect too.

Technically those 'aliens' were humans too. Different species, same genera. We had interbreeding with them, though it's a small proportion of neanderthal and some other species dna that were discovered.

I like to believe that we viewed them as close as another ethnicity, rather than a different species altogheter

Doubtful. They were probably viewed as demons

Possible. The native americans had (have?) the word ghost to describe the europeans who conquered their land.

You don't get 1.5-2% neanderthal genes in modern humans by viewing them as demons.

According to whom? Doesn’t seem out of the question for people to both have viewed them as demons or monsters and for certain people to have mated with them

>According to whom? Doesn’t seem out of the question for people to both have viewed them as demons or monsters and for certain people to have mated with them

cf. The Gnarly Man[0][1] by L. Sprague de Camp. It's fiction, but addresses that facet of potential interactions between hominid species.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnarly_Man

[1] https://www.galacticjourney.org/stories/600411gnarly.htm

Genesis 6:1-4 NABRE

When human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters were born to them,

the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives whomever they pleased.

Then the LORD said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh. Their days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years.

The Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later, after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of human beings, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.

Numbers 13:32-33

They spread discouraging reports among the Israelites about the land they had reconnoitered, saying, “The land that we went through and reconnoitered is a land that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge.

There we saw the Nephilim (the Anakim are from the Nephilim); in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.”

Succubus?

> You don't get 1.5-2% neanderthal genes in modern humans by viewing them as demons.

Hostile othering of populations doesn't stop interbreeding among anatomically modern human subpopulations, so I doubt it would between other interfertile parts of the human family.

It's not too unusual for a group to regard members of another specific hostile group as "demons". My point is that there are many other possibilities.

Was it an intentional genocide? Or was it repetitions of human/neanderthal clashes that resulted in us wiping out male neanderthals and breeding with the females until their genetic contribution got reduced to current levels (~2% on the high end). I guess technically we are still slowly killing them off every time someone with a high % procreates with someone who has none.

Evidence points towards the opposite, Neanderthal males bred with us but Neanderthal females didn't.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC368159/

We don't know why, but that would suggest we didn't conquer them, maybe our males didn't find their females attractive enough to have sex with. Neanderthals are more masculine looking than us, so their males would be attractive, but their females maybe looked too much like males to us.

Or maybe it means it wasn’t consensual.

> maybe our males didn't find their females attractive enough to have sex with

That seems like an extraordinarily unlikely hypothesis.

Do you know the thing with horses and donkeys?