My larger point is that the whole concept of a “turkic ethnic group” that spans like a third of asia is born out of racist brainworms wiggling about in turkish society. This is like a community celebrating all the “germanic nations” as if sweden, denmark, germany, austria, northern italy, west poland etc. are all germans wearing different hats. The whole idea that those nations are tied “more closely” together through a shared “lingual root” or more closely related to eachother or whatever should be obviously racist to anyone who has ever heard about the shit the nazis were spewing about the “greater german reich”. And I’m not drawing this parallel out of nowhere.

I’ve decided not to go further with digging into the history of it all. The comm was just part of cm002 special op to starve lemmy.ml of interactions and since it moved to one of the “good” instances it will likely not be very active.

I stand by that this is a racist movement as someone who grew up in turkey, went to turkish school, had the history of Turkey from Mongolia, through the seljuks to the ottoman empire as part of their curriculum and is intimately familiar with the whole ideas and thoughts that tie into this “turkic identity” idea. But unpacking it all would be a big effortpost just in order to get the copy of an already dead comm deleted and I have enough stress and stuff to research as it is.