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Are you Aryan? Are you sure?
I came across this on wikipedia and had to share. White supremacists are always discussing the how great and perfect all the blue-eyed, white people of the past were. They have this great pride in their heritage of perfect whiteness. Usually only very committed racists adopt the term "Aryan" for themselves. However the original Aryans were actually from Indo-Iran, and weren't all that white or blue eyed. Stupidity on top of stupidity...

"Aryan" (/ˈɛəriən/)[1] is a term that was used as a self-designation by Indo-Iranian people.[note 1] The word was used by the Indic people of the Vedic period in India as an ethnic label for themselves and to refer to the noble class as well as the geographic region known as Āryāvarta, where Indo-Aryan culture is based.[2][3] The closely related Iranian people also used the term as an ethnic label for themselves in the Avesta scriptures, and the word forms the etymological source of the country name Iran.[4][5][6][7] It was believed in the 19th century that Aryan was also a self-designation used by all Proto-Indo-Europeans, a theory that has now been abandoned.[8] Scholars point out that, even in ancient times, the idea of being an "Aryan" was religious, cultural and linguistic, not racial.[9][10][11]

Drawing on misinterpreted references in the Rig Veda by Western scholars in the 19th century, the term "Aryan" was adopted as a racial category through the works of Arthur de Gobineau, whose ideology of race was based on an idea of blonde northern European "Aryans" who had migrated across the world and founded all major civilizations, before being degraded through racial mixing with local populations. Through the works of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Gobineau's ideas later influenced the Nazi racial ideology which saw "Aryan peoples" as innately superior to other putative racial groups.[12]

The atrocities committed in the name of this racial ideology have led academics to avoid the term "Aryan", which has been replaced, in most cases, by "Indo-Iranian". The term now only appears in the context of the "Indo-Aryan languages".[13]

[en.wikipedia.org]

Humanistheathen 7 Aug 9
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I was raised Jewish. Just hearing that word makes me freak.

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They'll probably be pretty upset if they figure this out. They'll be even more upset when they realize they are ultimately from Africa.

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Someone once asked Tolkien if he was Aryan. He pointed this out, reminded them the word they were looking for was 'Teutonic', and that he wasn't one of those, either. It always made me smile, seeing letters and such where he tore apart allegories and comparisons of his work to Nazi gibberish.

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It's that awful WASP mentality in America.

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I always thought the perfect Aryan was as slender as Göring, as tall as Goebbels, and as blond as Hitler.

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White supremacists are willfully ignorant about history. They only believe the myth that they constructed in their lazy minds. I don't think that the majority have the will or the brainpower to educate themselves on their real heritage. And even if they do their biases only let them cherry-pick the parts they like.

Dietl Level 7 Aug 9, 2018

I'm with you on that one and you have hit it all exactly. The only difference is that in America they think they have some mystical and pure blood line that puts them in a category with bred cows, horses, dogs, and other animals. The stupidity is that they forget those animals were bred that way. Humans have no such pure race or blood.

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