It works on leftists, communists, and vampires alike.
Posted on 05/01/2022 6:50:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
Leftists in Britain celebrated St George’s Day on Saturday with their annual issuing of false claims that the Roman soldier of Cappadocian Greek ethnicity was, variously, “Turkish”, “Arab”, and “a migrant worker” in an effort to “own” English patriots.
The fact that England’s patron saint, St George, was not an Englishman is not atypical — Ireland’s St Patrick was British and Scotland’s St Andrew, the first-called of Christ’s apostles, hailed from the Holy Land — but is seized upon every year by left-wingers as a stick with which to beat patriots in general and sceptics of mass migration and multiculturalism in particular.
“George was an Arab with a Turkish dad and a Syrian mother,” crowed one typical blue tick on St George’s Day 2022.
“Isn’t it brilliantly appropriate that the patron saint of England isn’t English. #Diversity?” they added.
As mentioned above, however, George was in fact a Greek from Cappadocia, and while Cappadocia is located in what is now Turkey, the saint was born in 200s, around 700 years before the first Turkic invaders began to arrive in the area from their native Central Asia — making claims he was from Turkey about as sensible as claiming a 3rd-century Native American was from the United States.
Similarly, while St George’s mother reputedly hailed from the Roman province of Syria Palaestina, the Arabs would not conquer this area until after the birth of the Islamic prophet hundreds of years later, with the contemporary population being primarily Graeco–Aramean in culture and ethnicity.
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The left is consumed with hatred for whites and their heritage.
It works on leftists, communists, and vampires alike.
Well, at least they didn’t say that St George was a Muslim lesbian woman. But maybe that will come next year.
‘Turks’ are murderous colonists from central Asia, unrelated to the natives who adopted Greco-Roman civilization.
Saint George died 23 April 303. The Turks were still out in Central Asia somewhere. If he came from Anatolia he had to be of Byzantium, and thus Christian, descent.
Ok left, try again.
They could substitute St Boris. He has Turkish ancestry on his father’s side.
Actually, he was Greek speaking from Anatolia, now Turkey. There was no Byzantium yet, and it isn’t clear if his parents were Christian or pagan. He was a Roman soldier executed for refusing to persecute Christians.
He is the patron saint of England and various other places. The English flag is the cross of St. George. The British flag, Union Jack is the cross of St. George combined with the Scottish cross of St. Andrew.
St. George’s Day is a big deal in England, similar to St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland. It apparently was more important before the Union with Scotland after 1700. They still go by saint days and the religious calendar in England.
There is no specific “white” or “black” heritage. The Roman’s didn’t care for race, which is why they had Berber and Syrian emperors as well as Isaurian, Dacian etc.
There is English heritage, Syrian, Greek, etc. Heritagr, but nothing specific to a color.
The “black history” month is as daft as “white history “ by the by.
Look at Nubian heritage, that is utterly different from Ghana heritage just as Neapolitan differs from Estonian. Yet all 4 are related through Christianity
I beg to differ.
The original Turkic invaders were from Mongolia, but they intermarried along the way and were already heavily Aryanized by the time they reached Anatolia, having married Iranian women (Aryan properly means ONLY Iranian or north Indians, not germans).
Today’s “Turks” have less than 5% Turkic Gene’s on average, with eastern Turks having more and western having less. They are mostly the descendents of the Hurrians, Hittite, Galatians, Roman, Greek, Iranian, etc.
Remember that in the 1800s, the term turk was used for any Muslim in the Balkans or Anatolia.
In 303 it was still the united empire, so he would be Roman (well the term Byzantine was created by German scholars in the 1800s. The Byzantines called themselves Roman’s, which is why the Seljuk turkish sultanate called itself the sultanate of the Roman’s.).
Turks in 303 would not have existed. They came about only in the 5th and 6th centuries as the Gokturk. In 303 there would be the XiAnbei and Xiongnu federations in what is now eastern Mongolia . There were a mix of proto Mongolic, protoTurkic, Yenisean, jurchen etc peoples
Worth considering.
What’s the big deal? Most of the royal family are descended from German immigrants.
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