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  • Was Mongolism as a word in any way connected with Mongolians?

    Yes, but via Eugenics and Scientific Racialism. You can probably see where this is going...

    The amazing thing is that given the context, anyone used that sort of terminology after 1945. You would have thought that there would have been a been a big ideas clearout, where governments, universities, institutions and other seats of knowledge, wisdom and influence would examine all the ideas and theories that they used, and put all the ones about mongols and hollow earths or doing eye exercises to combat short sight in a big bin marked 'OMG HITLAR...'

    Didn't the Mongols conquer the largest contiguous empire that the world has ever seen? Not bad for a bunch of spastics.

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