https://nitter.net/backyardbound1/status/1741656028347826242

  • Dolores [love/loves]
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    10 months ago

    Turanian

    my best guess on this is that they're substituting "aryan" for turanian to avoid the nazi-coding. Turan is an iranian term for east-of-iran based on a legendary figure. as indo-iranian(aryan) split into iranian and indo-aryan in the general area of Turan i suppose the nazis probably think there was a central-asian atlantis of white people over there or something

    the other two terms first results are from conan the barbarian lmao

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      thank you, that was sadly illuminating

      seems like all the weird, vaguely shitty dudes I knew in my 20s all somehow banded together to form an openly shitty, truly reprehensible club

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        10 months ago

        i'm probably giving them too much credit based on the conan references in the other terms, lol. a guy makes some dumb books that reference quack historiography and a few decades later a handful of nazis think its gospel lmao

      • Dolores [love/loves]
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        10 months ago

        there's like nothing alike between the ashina and osmanuglu but it's funny an early 20th century person tried to relate them, lmao

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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          10 months ago

          He didn't really put any thought in it since iirc something like one story happens there for a brief time, it's mostly aesthetic torn between "ancient nomadic people" and "mysterious oriental empire"

          And you don't even need to go to early XX cetury person, for some reason i see every now and then in the internet people entartaining panturkic ideas who also do this, but in all seriousness.