cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39335010
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- sucius1@lemdro.idEnglish1 year
just stop. You’re just embarrassing yourself. Making the same joke in every post about the launch is not going to make it funny.
- 1 year
It’s not a joke, it’s a criticism of nazi heritage during a time when nazi imagery is resurfacing.
This is nazi imagery that never left the surface.
I agree it’s not funny.
- Terces@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Nazi imagery? What? What the hell are you talking about?
The name comes from the French spelling of Ariadne, a Greek mythical character.
- 1 year
- 1 year
Rocketry has an undeniably nazi past.
Naming Europe’s largest rocket program since the nazis any variation of “Aryan” is nazi imagery.
- 1 year
If you’re an American and have no clue about European Languages or culture it makes sense I guess
- 1 year
The I and the Y serve the same phonetic function.
Then they slapped on an “e” to make it feminine. Standard French grammar.
It’s still racist even if it’s feminine.
- 1 year
Here’s French wikipedia calling the mythological figure “Ariane” with no D https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_(mythologie)
“Aryan” in French is “aryenne”, it has a different vowel
France had plenty of pre-WWII rocket scientists, like:
- Yves Le Prieur, who developed anti-balloon rockets in WWI
- Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who pioneered the use of joystick controls and founded an award for advances in space travel
- Louis Damblanc, who built the first ever multi-stage rocket
What France did not have was a counterpart to Operation Paperclip like Britain and the Soviet Union did
And lastly, the guy that picked the name was a devoted supporter of Charles de Gaulle
This criticism does not hold up any scrutiny whatsoever
1 yearNo it really doesn’t.
Aryan (/ˈɛəriən/)
Vs
Ariane (/ɑːriˈɑːnə/)
How does the I and y serve the same phonetic function?
And now it’s not just Nazi but racist as well? Get out of here.
- sucius1@lemdro.idEnglish1 year
You’re not very bright, are you? It has nothing to do with nazism, it’s a reference to Greek mythology https://ariane.group/en/news/la-genese-dariane-1-et-le-debut-dune-epopee-spatiale-europeenne-3/
- 1 year
And they conveniently left off the d in “ariadne”.
Obvious dogwhistle is obvious.
Changing the y to an i and adding an e to make it feminine doesn’t make it less racist.
- 1 year
No one besides you makes this association.
Maybe it’s a you problem
- 1 year
Anyone with half a brain and knows history does.
- 1 year
They chose a word that evoked the Aryan and nazi heritage.
- 1 year
Nah, American space nut who has had this as a pet issue for decades.
- 1 year
Nah, fuck Putin and fuck Trump and fuck anyone who apologizes for Aryan imagery.
I’m an antifascist troll who calls it out whenever it needs calling out.
- Zoutpeper@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
No, you’re a fascist troll. You’re just calling anything fascist to dilute the meaning.
Multiple people have already explained basic stuff to you, which you willfully ignore in favour of your baseless propaganda.
Congratulations your actions are indistinguishable from those fascist you claim to hate (but don’t, because you are a troll).
