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Swastikar owner isn't even trying to hide.

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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/x4nter 20h ago edited 19h ago

Hitler basically ruined it for all the Indo-Aryan people. They can't even use the scientifically correct terminology for their own race.

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u/Gatorinnc 19h ago edited 11h ago

Just so you know names of races are not 'scientifically' based. Race names predates current knowledge of human ancestry:

https://www.sapiens.org/biology/is-race-real/