Post AZuOTH2qcp3bD9SGC8 by hyoomin@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AZu6Bvwt7W9xUCyNU0 by Blackgendermoderate@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T21:19:29.857849Z
       
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       White brothers and sisters of fediverse, do you consider Slavics to be truly Aryan?
       
 (DIR) Post #AZu6zshNTiw5swXDmK by Mynona@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T21:28:33.374934Z
       
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       @Blackgendermoderate Pure slavs don't exist at this point
       
 (DIR) Post #AZu7MM4wvMUHNRHDPs by Cousin_Isobel@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T21:32:37.272337Z
       
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       @Blackgendermoderate I though “Aryan” was mostly something Hitler made up – like, the word existed, but meant something different from “the whitest people in Europe.”
       
 (DIR) Post #AZu8eA18bhSB8TY2Qi by RadLola@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T21:39:09.001574Z
       
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       @Cousin_Isobel @Blackgendermoderate I think Aryans meant a small club of people, only pure Nordics and Germanics, which Hitler considered to be the most superior humans. I don't know though, I'm not very well informed about that
       
 (DIR) Post #AZu9jy2a9IYHgMYYLI by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T21:59:17.536175Z
       
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       @Cousin_Isobel @Blackgendermoderate I thought it was anyone PIE-descended, but may be wrong.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZuA9jxt6YIhYYeMsq by Cousin_Isobel@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T22:03:57.423343Z
       
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       @Flick @Blackgendermoderate This is what I had heard:c. 1600, as a term in classical history, from Latin Arianus, Ariana, from Greek Aria, Areia, names applied in classical times to the eastern part of ancient Persia and to its inhabitants. Your definition brings us closer to the time/place of Nazism, though:German philologist Max Müller (1823-1900) popularized Aryan in his writings on comparative linguistics, recommending it as the name (replacing Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Caucasian, Japhetic) for the group of related, inflected languages connected with these peoples, mostly found in Europe but also including Sanskrit and Persian.Etymonline adds:From the 1920s Aryan began to be used in Nazi ideology to mean “member of a Caucasian Gentile race of Nordic type.” As an ethnic designation, however, it is properly limited to Indo-Iranians (most justly to the latter) and has fallen from general academic use since the Nazis adopted it.https://www.etymonline.com/word/aryan
       
 (DIR) Post #AZuFlPl7B6HVfCSXhI by ninapaley@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T23:06:47.095279Z
       
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       @Blackgendermoderate I'm descended largely from Slavs, as far as I know. Also Jews. I'm Jewish-Slavic, aka Ashkenazi. I assume there was a lot of mixing between those ethnicities. So my answer is: I doubt it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZuI3UfLs8pE0GVpD6 by LostInCalifornia@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-18T23:32:28.025269Z
       
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       @RadLola @Cousin_Isobel @Blackgendermoderate In Hitler’s ideology, true. In history, Aryans were an early group of Indo Europeans.White is a skin color, not an ethnicity. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1881/02/who-are-the-aryans/521367/
       
 (DIR) Post #AZuOTH2qcp3bD9SGC8 by hyoomin@spinster.xyz
       2023-09-19T00:40:05.295922Z
       
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       @Cousin_Isobel @Flick @Blackgendermoderate Classic Aryan