Original sentence: Although all nations have had notions of national superiority at one time or the other, white people (specifically, early modern Europeans) took this notion to "unprecedented" levels, and used this ideology as "justification" for their subjugation of non-white people all across the world.White people constructed a hierarchy based on race, with whites at the top
Edited sentence: Although all nations have had notions of national superiority at one time or the other, white people (specifically, early modern Europeans) took this notion to "unprecedented" levels - resulting in a grotesque and distorted notion of superiority based on race (a euphimism for skin color).Essentially, white people constructed a hierarchy based on race, with whites at the top.This ideology was then used as "justification" for their subjugation of non-white people all across the world