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Jul 19, 2017
2:48:48pm

chilango All-American

People focus on eye color and hair color, but those were much less important in

Nazis' eyes than were race, religion, ethnicity, and culture in general.

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Aryans (Hitler made that crap up)

ChinoCoug

7/19/17 12:08pm

RE: Aryans (Hitler made that crap up)

thaws

7/19/17 12:09pm

Actually, the term became popular in the 1800s for Nordic. Churchill also

chago04

7/19/17 12:11pm

Still made up, though

ChinoCoug

7/19/17 12:14pm

So are all words, if you go far enough back.

Jezza

7/19/17 12:17pm

I meant misappropriated

ChinoCoug

7/19/17 12:21pm

I mean at least in texts I've read historians still use the term Aryan in its

Jezza

7/19/17 12:25pm

you watched that episode on IHC I see. it was a fun one

Mayor of Cougartown

7/19/17 12:16pm

I didn't but if you have a link, please share!

ChinoCoug

7/19/17 12:48pm

I watched it on cable tv. IHC channel so I can't help

Mayor of Cougartown

7/19/17 2:45pm

Speaking of Hitler and the race/ethnic dynamic...

Zach Morris

7/19/17 12:42pm

Yes. Hitler himself didn't even have blue eyes and blonde hair.

Jezza

7/19/17 12:50pm

His plan was to have Germans marry Scandinavians to produce the desired

ChinoCoug

7/19/17 12:52pm

From the little I know it seems Hitler was a German nationalist to the extreme and felt

Zach Morris

7/19/17 12:56pm

Yes that's a fair summary of what he claimed as the source of his anti-semitism

Jezza

7/19/17 1:03pm

Hair and eye color didn't really matter, it was their ethnic background. IF

7/19/17 12:54pm

It wasn't just Jews, it was Muslims, gays, Communists, and blacks

chago04

7/19/17 12:56pm

This goes back to my confusion. If it was about racial or ethnic traits then

Zach Morris

7/19/17 1:09pm

There is more to ethnicity and race than hair color and eye color.

7/19/17 1:15pm

Blond/blue eyes is necessary but insufficient condition. He didn't have those

ChinoCoug

7/19/17 1:17pm

People focus on eye color and hair color, but those were much less important in

chilango

7/19/17 2:48pm

I wouldn't include Muslims. Basically everyone other than European Aryans were

7/19/17 1:09pm

And Gypsies, Slavs and the handicapped, too

spinner

7/19/17 1:19pm

And Jehovah's Witnesses too.

chilango

7/19/17 2:45pm

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