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Postby Communtopia » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:51 pm

Excuse me, but when has Germans been considered a 'race'?

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Postby NERVUN » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:53 pm

Er... During Nazi Germany?

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:53 pm

Umm, is someone claiming that? :unsure:

But there was this whole thing about 'germanic' people being a race back in the '30s and '40s all being the hype in a certain european country...
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Postby Barringtonia » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:53 pm

No, you misunderstood, it was that the Germans are considered racist,

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Postby Communtopia » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:55 pm

Barringtonia wrote:No, you misunderstood, it was that the Germans are considered racist,

Honestly, people just don't listen anymore,


I slag the germans, everyone goes around yelling 'Racism!'

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Postby Reavani » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:56 pm

Aryans are a Race, (The "Master Race" according to Hitler)

Germans are technically a race, as all basic descents from tribes go.

French-German-Anglo-Italian-Chinese-Korean-Japanese-ECT are all races


However?


Swedish =/= race.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:58 pm

Yup, Swedish is a language.

However, Swedes are a race ;)
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Postby Barzan » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:58 pm

Communtopia wrote:Excuse me, but when has Germans been considered a 'race'?

Never. "German" is both a nationality and an ethnicity. There are only three races: Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid, although they consist of many ethnic groups. Germans, Teutons/Saxons/Aryans/etc are Caucasoid.
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Postby Barringtonia » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:59 pm

Communtopia wrote:
Barringtonia wrote:No, you misunderstood, it was that the Germans are considered racist,

Honestly, people just don't listen anymore,


I slag the germans, everyone goes around yelling 'Racism!'


Poor you, slag the Poles and no one will care,
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:59 pm

Depends, is he going to slag the North or the South Poles?
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Postby Barzan » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:04 pm

Communtopia wrote:
Barringtonia wrote:No, you misunderstood, it was that the Germans are considered racist,

Honestly, people just don't listen anymore,


I slag the germans, everyone goes around yelling 'Racism!'

Really? I slag Poles, Jews, Slavs, Chinese, Arabs, Italians, Irish, English, Americans, etc., and I'm not racist. I just enjoy making fun of people with crude insults sometimes. I don't treat anyone with less respect simply because of their ethnicity/race. That said, if I see some shady-looking characters wearing hoodies on a warm day, shorts that go down to the ground, and sideways ball caps, I try to steer clear of them.
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Postby Blouman Empire » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:52 pm

Communtopia wrote:Excuse me, but when has Germans been considered a 'race'?


Where did this come from?
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Postby NotRust » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:54 pm

Communtopia wrote:
Barringtonia wrote:No, you misunderstood, it was that the Germans are considered racist,

Honestly, people just don't listen anymore,


I slag the germans, everyone goes around yelling 'Racism!'


1) Because it's not 1915 any more
2) Because "ethnocism" isn't a word yet

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Postby Reavani » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:07 am

I'm from a family, that's like 900 generations of Italian + German + Anglo bred, so I make fun of EVERYONE, I laugh at White Supremacists, at Womens Right's Activists, and at Blacks, Jews, ect, all the time.


Does this make me a Racist? No, because the girls I date are generally not-white.
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Postby Erich Dahmer » Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:22 pm

Communtopia wrote:
Barringtonia wrote:No, you misunderstood, it was that the Germans are considered racist,

Honestly, people just don't listen anymore,


I slag the germans, everyone goes around yelling 'Racism!'

Did you use a slur like "kraut"? It's no different than "jap".

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Postby Taeshan » Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:37 pm

I would tend to think that it was not Germans as a race during Nazi time, it was Aryans, band second off i think the Germans are a people of a country anyways.
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Postby Barzan » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:14 pm

Reavani wrote:I'm from a family, that's like 900 generations of Italian + German + Anglo bred, so I make fun of EVERYONE, I laugh at White Supremacists, at Womens Right's Activists, and at Blacks, Jews, ect, all the time.


Does this make me a Racist? No, because the girls I date are generally not-white.

I've dated, and will continue to date, any girl whom I find attractive -- Blonde, brunette, red-haired, ginger, Chinese, Arab, brown Asian, Japanese, Persian, light Indian, dark Indian, etc. All races and ethnicities have their gorgeous women. As long as we're culturally compatible (meaning raised here with liberal Western values or being open to them and to dating outside their own group), race and ethnicity don't bother me. A wise man once said "They're all pink on the inside."
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Postby Patriqvinia » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:31 pm

Well... "Germanic" is a race... To which: Saxons, Franks, Norse, Danes, Swedes, Gouts and Geats (Goths/Gotlanders), Normans, Suisse, Sweboz, Burgundians, and Langobardoz belong. Some other tribes which disappeared a bit farther back include: Markomannoz, Xattisku, Xeruski, Xabukoz, Kimbroz, Basternisku, Alemmanni, Semnones, Kimbri, and Teutones to name a few. Germanic people are closely related with other neighboring caucasoid sub-races including: Ugro-Finns, Balts, Slavs, and Celts.
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Postby Patriqvinia » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:35 pm

Reavani wrote:I'm from a family, that's like 900 generations of Italian + German + Anglo bred, so I make fun of EVERYONE, I laugh at White Supremacists, at Womens Right's Activists, and at Blacks, Jews, ect, all the time.


Does this make me a Racist? No, because the girls I date are generally not-white.

good-bye diversity...
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:45 pm

Reavani wrote:I'm from a family, that's like 900 generations of Italian + German + Anglo bred, so I make fun of EVERYONE, I laugh at White Supremacists, at Womens Right's Activists, and at Blacks, Jews, ect, all the time.


Does this make me a Racist? No, because the girls I date are generally not-white.

Was this the 'out' that Strom Thrumond was banking on?
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Postby Reavani » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:45 pm

Patriqvinia wrote:
Reavani wrote:I'm from a family, that's like 900 generations of Italian + German + Anglo bred, so I make fun of EVERYONE, I laugh at White Supremacists, at Womens Right's Activists, and at Blacks, Jews, ect, all the time.


Does this make me a Racist? No, because the girls I date are generally not-white.

good-bye diversity...

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Postby Aasgaurd » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:46 pm

Why is this a topic lol.
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Postby The Imperial Navy » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:47 pm

Hmm, what a pointless question. :)

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Postby Barzan » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:53 pm

Patriqvinia wrote:Well... "Germanic" is a race... To which: Saxons, Franks, Norse, Danes, Swedes, Gouts and Geats (Goths/Gotlanders), Normans, Suisse, Sweboz, Burgundians, and Langobardoz belong. Some other tribes which disappeared a bit farther back include: Markomannoz, Xattisku, Xeruski, Xabukoz, Kimbroz, Basternisku, Alemmanni, Semnones, Kimbri, and Teutones to name a few. Germanic people are closely related with other neighboring caucasoid sub-races including: Ugro-Finns, Balts, Slavs, and Celts.

Wouldn't Germanic be a sub-race of Caucasoid?
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Postby Pope Joan » Sat Sep 19, 2009 1:01 pm

Barzan wrote:
Patriqvinia wrote:Well... "Germanic" is a race... To which: Saxons, Franks, Norse, Danes, Swedes, Gouts and Geats (Goths/Gotlanders), Normans, Suisse, Sweboz, Burgundians, and Langobardoz belong. Some other tribes which disappeared a bit farther back include: Markomannoz, Xattisku, Xeruski, Xabukoz, Kimbroz, Basternisku, Alemmanni, Semnones, Kimbri, and Teutones to name a few. Germanic people are closely related with other neighboring caucasoid sub-races including: Ugro-Finns, Balts, Slavs, and Celts.

Wouldn't Germanic be a sub-race of Caucasoid?


I always thought so.

At most it's a racial sub-type.

Isn't race getting to be an outmoded concept anyway?
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