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[-] Pwalabwa@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 5 days ago

Thanks for correcting and informing me.

I don't think you are a Nazi, but I'm convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you've heard someone say "Persian, Iranian, it doesn't matter, they mean the same thing"

No, no, nothing as sinister. In french, my mother tongue, Iranian is called "persan", and DeepL calls the language "persian", so, both things led me to that blunder. No malice, only stupidity.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No worries at all. I absolutely don't expect most people to pick up on it. (That's why it's a good dog-whistle). Even in Iran they'd just think you're outdated. But it's a very common thing in the diaspora who long for the monarchy when there was a hierarchy of peoples and theirs was at the top. VOA/RFA operated Iranian-language media has been very good at pushing this narrative of going 'back to tradition', to a time when minorities 'weren't stealing resources from the majority', or 'demanding affirmative action', etc.

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