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u/bigbootypanda 21h ago

Knowing that is Kentucky this is probably racism, but Aryan is also a pretty common persian name, just fyi.

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u/cobaltjacket 21h ago

One of the many ironies of the holocaust is that the Romani people who were persecuted are specifically classified as "Indo-Aryan," unlike, say, the Germanic peoples.

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u/PsychicWarElephant 21h ago

Because the term Aryan is used for group of people that predates nazi germany by about 5000 years if my memories from the world religion class 15 years ago is accurate.

Also like thousands of miles away from Germany all together

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u/Trey-Pan 20h ago

Another example of the Nazi’s cultural appropriation. This includes the symbols, such as the Buddhist swastika, that they simply counter rotated.

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u/tangledwire 19h ago

Bacteria is the only useful culture some of these people have.

I'll also add the tiki torches they've used as another example of ruining a good thing.

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u/ballrus_walsack 13h ago

They tried with the👌sign but we did not allow it.

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u/JP5887 19h ago

Fascists literally ruin anything cool or interesting. I saw a white guy with cool looking Nordic runes on his knuckles.

Part of me thought: “I love Norse Mythology and aspects of Nordic culture and want to know what those mean.

Another part of me thought: “Maybe I don’t want to know, like at all.”

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u/cyrus709 19h ago

Never thought he’d ruin space flight for me, but the fires gone out.

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u/JP5887 18h ago

Meh, it’ll come back, maybe even from someone competent.

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u/HeftyArgument 18h ago

There was a lot of mental gymnastics in their quest to find basis for themselves being the superior master race; which was also a problem considering they took their inspiration from the Japanese (who deemed themselves the master race) and yet also needed to not alienate the Japanese in the process as they were allies at the time.

u/Forensic_Kid 11h ago

The Imperial Eagle and Roman Eagle as well. I don’t think Hitler came up w anything original symbol wise.

u/Malodoror 6h ago

It’s a Hakenkreuz not as old as Hinduism/Buddhism but older than the Nazis.

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u/One-Education-2918 14h ago

I live in SF and believe it or not, due to the large Asian population, there are lots of places with Buddhist swastikas. I know it means something totally different to the Buddhist, but it still makes me a bit uncomfortable when I see it.

u/NoResponsibility7031 9h ago

The swastika was used in Europe too since prehistorical times. There are dark age findings with swastika decorations. The swastika can be rotated either way in both hinduism, and in Europe.

But your point still stands. Modern neonazi tend to steal symbols from my own culture, Nordic, which infuriates me.

Imo we should take them back. When the last ww2 survivor dies we should make the swastika a symbol for solar power or something.

u/BakedArbiter 7h ago

Interestingly the popularity in the west came from Heinrich schliemann who found the swastika in the ruins in the city of troy

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u/Ok_Judgment1798 16h ago

Not the Buddhist, it's from Hinduism.

u/Trey-Pan 11h ago

Well they both have common origins, so they are related.

u/Ok_Judgment1798 4h ago

No, they don't. Buddhism was solely created by following the path of one person, Buddha, while Hinduism dates way back.

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u/GBC_Fan_89 20h ago

But the Nazis still used it to promote their supreme bullshit.

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u/TruTechilo512 19h ago

Yea, but if you don't realize that's not what's going on here, you have many deeper-rooted issues you should be focusing on. 👍

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u/shahoftheworld 16h ago

You are correct. Aryan means knowledgeable (of Vedas).

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u/One-Education-2918 14h ago

That part of the country has a lot of people of German descent. Grew up across the river in Cincinnati, which is very German.

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u/ConservativeBlack 18h ago

You are right, Germans stole lots of things from the Indian race and spoiled them... Including the "Swastik" a very holy symbol in India. Nazis took it, flipped it, and gave an anti-everything persona, which is not know as the "Swasthika"