Roman wars with Persia produced no distinctive racist propaganda

Evidence

In the Roman period, Rome fought a series of wars against the Parthian and Sasanian rulers of Persia. However, fighting on the empire’s eastern front does not seem to have been accompanied by any distinctive racist propaganda about sinister Orientals. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 43

Categorization

• XREF: Directly counters the assumption that imperial warfare naturally breeds racial stereotyping — relevant to Said’s claims about Orientalism requiring imperial enmity.