TheReal_ND wrote: ↑Fri May 25, 2018 9:17 pm
I'm questioning how you could take such a loose, prehistoric connection to a people that you know nothing about, culturally or genetically, and extrapolate it all the way into an idea of a separate modern people.
Have I not demonstrated I know more than nothing about the roots of Europeans that we share a cultural and genetic tie to? If you find it too much a stretch to identify with Aryans then that's ok with me. I like to use the term because it's politically incorrect and for people that understand the Indo-European hypothesis it conveys essentially the same idea. White works too.
You know only that the roots of English are related to horse nomads from Central Asia. Think about that for a minute. Who were they raiding?
Isn’t the most likely explanation that the groups were intermingled, just like Vikings and Saxons? Hell, Olde English is a mix of Nordic and Saxon, far more than it’s related to Pashtun.
The fact is, we can only guess at what happened that far back. Entire people’s were moving all over the place, interbreeding, and being wiped out. Finding a similarity between two of them is no basis for any sort of idea about modern genetic heritage, or traits thereof.
Or how Hitler could possibly find that relevant to his German ubermensch. Let alone take it to the point of finding this vague idea of a group "superior" to the rest.
You are the one that keeps bringing up Hitler in this conversation. Me not once. The reason is because "Aryan" illicites a pavlovian response that makes you associate the user of the word with the Third Reich. That's why I use the term partly. And Hitler never came up with these ideas on his own. All of the ideology he used concerning the quasi mythic origination of the White race came from the Thule society and Rudolph Hess. I find it interesting however. I like to think about the origins of the White race and practice some magical thinking about something special in our genes. It's really self evident though as far as the science is concerned. I mean I shouldn't say that Western Europeans are overall superior to any other phenotype but I like our culture and shared heritage the best. I'm sure the Sub Saharan African phenotype is superior in it's own ways as is as well the Eastern Asian or even Ashkenazi.
He’s kind of the eternal figurehead for fascism. And most certainly for the idea of “aryans” being white people.
You have to expect that.