kraftiekortie wrote:
Remember: what I stated about the “Aryans” was pure Nazi revisionist theory.
Not really...This theory started in the late 19th century:
Quote:
While the "Aryan race" theory remained popular, particularly in Germany, some authors opposed it, in particular Otto Schrader, Rudolph von Jhering and the ethnologist Robert Hartmann (1831–1893), who proposed to ban the notion of "Aryan" from anthropology.[11]
Müller's concept of Aryan was later construed to imply a biologically distinct sub-group of humanity, by writers such as Arthur de Gobineau, who argued that the Aryans represented a superior branch of humanity. Müller objected to the mixing of linguistics and anthropology. "These two sciences, the Science of Language and the Science of Man, cannot, at least for the present, be kept too much asunder; [...] I must repeat, what I have said many times before, it would be as wrong to speak of Aryan blood as of dolichocephalic grammar".[15] He restated his opposition to this method in 1888 in his essay Biographies of words and the home of the Aryas.[11]
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_raceSo, as early as 1888 the theory would have had to be well enough known for the need for it to be opposed.
On a side note, it is interesting to note how the modern "critical race theory" shares the same "X race(s) good, Other race(s) evil" approach to society, albeit "critical race theory" reversed the roles, making the former "good" race evil, and expanding the section of the population included within it...Carried to an extreme, "critical race theory" could potentially be used as a basis for a similar outcome as the "Aryan master race" theory was ("this group of people are evil/subhuman and cannot be redeemed, and so what is wrong with getting rid of them").
13 Sep 2020, 5:53 am
