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This is horrific. Iranians/Persians are some of the brightest and warmest people that have a culture spanning back thousands of years. May the young people in

This is horrific. Iranians/Persians are some of the brightest and warmest people that have a culture spanning back thousands of years. May the young people in Iran persist and overcome this brutal regime of terror.

coryrc 8mo ago
Unfortunately that history includes nearly perfecting the use of torture thousands of years ago. https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/torture-achaemenid-period/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/torture-achaemenid-pe...
- E-Reverance 8mo ago
  This says very little about the quality of the culture averaged over those thousands of years Quit cherrypicking for the sake of being an edgelord
  - coryrc 8mo ago
    You don't think history has an effect on the present? I didn't even bring up SAVAK or Basij.
    - E-Reverance 8mo ago
      You haven't shown that the lineage is connected to modern Persian people nor whether it is particularly prominent in Persian culture as a whole Torture and power preserving/seeking are emergent and universal, nothing particularly Persian about it
      - coryrc 8mo ago
        I feel you must not have met any people from continually-multi-thousand-year-old cultures. I believe Crete was the first country to unilaterally declare itself a part of another country, because being Greek is possibly the strongest and proudest connection they share. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete#Cretan_State_and_union_with_Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete#Cretan_State_and_union_w... The Jewish Diaspora take great lengths to preserve their traditions; you can walk into a synagogue (sharing the same movement) anywhere in the world and it'll be the same as your hometown. The Persians I have known have had a connection to their history similarly, for better or for worse. Their views and values are a little different than, say, your average Euro-mutt "white" American -- and I think we "white" Americans have some lessons we could take about culture, identity, and values.
        E-Reverance 8mo ago
        Where do you think I'm from lol .....

coryrc 8mo ago

Unfortunately that history includes nearly perfecting the use of torture thousands of years ago. https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/torture-achaemenid-period/ https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/torture-achaemenid-pe...

E-Reverance 8mo ago
This says very little about the quality of the culture averaged over those thousands of years Quit cherrypicking for the sake of being an edgelord
- coryrc 8mo ago
  You don't think history has an effect on the present? I didn't even bring up SAVAK or Basij.
  - E-Reverance 8mo ago
    You haven't shown that the lineage is connected to modern Persian people nor whether it is particularly prominent in Persian culture as a whole Torture and power preserving/seeking are emergent and universal, nothing particularly Persian about it
    - coryrc 8mo ago
      I feel you must not have met any people from continually-multi-thousand-year-old cultures. I believe Crete was the first country to unilaterally declare itself a part of another country, because being Greek is possibly the strongest and proudest connection they share. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete#Cretan_State_and_union_with_Greece https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crete#Cretan_State_and_union_w... The Jewish Diaspora take great lengths to preserve their traditions; you can walk into a synagogue (sharing the same movement) anywhere in the world and it'll be the same as your hometown. The Persians I have known have had a connection to their history similarly, for better or for worse. Their views and values are a little different than, say, your average Euro-mutt "white" American -- and I think we "white" Americans have some lessons we could take about culture, identity, and values.
      - E-Reverance 8mo ago
        Where do you think I'm from lol .....