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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Thu Feb 22, 2018, 04:14 PM Feb 2018

NRA, Sessions pro AngloSaxon Values. But, but...Russia isn't AngloSaxon, it's Slavic, right?

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NRA, Sessions pro AngloSaxon Values. But, but...Russia isn't AngloSaxon, it's Slavic, right? (Original Post) bobbieinok Feb 2018 OP

Can't they just simplify and go with "Caucasian Values"? A lot simpler and accurate. That Guy Whitey Corngood Feb 2018 #1

Right. TwistOneUp Feb 2018 #2

Nazis wanted to eradicate slavs, levei to or lower than Jews. English same root for slave, slav. bobbieinok Feb 2018 #4

Then Sessions should read the history of the Anglo-Saxon people. atreides1 Feb 2018 #3

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,501 posts)

1. Can't they just simplify and go with "Caucasian Values"? A lot simpler and accurate. That

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 04:15 PM

Feb 2018

way they cover both their bigots and ours.

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)

2. Right.

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 04:17 PM

Feb 2018

If you wikipedia Russia you will find that they "evolved" from a group of peeps known as the Kiev Rus, who were slavic. And often you will find rooskies referring to, "our true ancestors, the slavs."

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

4. Nazis wanted to eradicate slavs, levei to or lower than Jews. English same root for slave, slav.

Reply to TwistOneUp (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 04:46 PM

Feb 2018

atreides1

(16,079 posts)

3. Then Sessions should read the history of the Anglo-Saxon people.

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Thu Feb 22, 2018, 04:28 PM

Feb 2018

The larger narrative, seen in the history of Anglo-Saxon England, is the continued mixing and integration of various disparate elements into one Anglo-Saxon people. The outcome of this mixing and integration was a continuous re-interpretation by the Anglo-Saxons of their society and worldview, which Heinreich Härke calls a "complex and ethnically mixed society"

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