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Uzbekistan fans dressed up as Timurid warriors for the World Cup is like if Germany fans showed up wearing SS outfits.
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Anonymous 20w

No it’s like if Mexicans dressed up as Aztecs. The actions of the Timurids took place so long ago that while I think glorifying conquest is bad, it’s not victimizing any modern people or perpetuating a modern harmful ideology. I was going to make the comparison that it’d be more like Germans dressing up as Teutonic knights but honestly the knights carry more of a modern connection to a harmful supremacist movement than the timurids. Uzbeks aren’t killing people in the name of the timurids.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

Timur the conqueror massacred and enslaved hundreds of thousands of people in Iran and India so bad that the resulting cultures were changed forever.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 20w

Yeah and that was bad. But dressing up as them isn’t as bad as the Nazis because the Nazis hurt people who are still alive today, and they are still ideologically dangerous. There is not a timurid ideology that is hurting people today. Tons of historical empires committed horrible crimes. Romans, Aztecs, mongols, selucids.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20w

I think the commonplace glorification of these conquests is bad, but it’s very different than gloryifying the Nazis because they do not as much represent a currently dangerous ideology. With the Romans or the Crusaders you have a bit more of that due to modern white shpremacy. But there aren’t a bunch of timur-followers massacring people today.

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