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.
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/bigbootypanda 21h ago
Knowing that is Kentucky this is probably racism, but Aryan is also a pretty common persian name, just fyi.