This unfortunate baby was born on February 22, 2005 in the tiny little town of Roseburg, Oregon (Population 21,000). Why do I say that she’s unfortunate? It has nothing to do with the dress she’s wearing, that’s really not her fault. And all babies look like boiled aloo when they’re born. Nor was she born too small or too large; at 9 lbs 3 oz, she’s well within normal parameters.
The unfortunate thing about this baby is her name: Aryan Justice. This poor little girl is going to have to go through life with the name of a political cause that frankly, hasn’t been on the winning side of many battles lately. Probably the last time the Aryans won anything was when they invaded India, thousands of years ago. They would have been better off naming her “Christian Right” (assuming they shared those values, many Aryan Nation folks are Pagans [NSFW], and talk about the “brutal dictatorship of Christian tyrants” [NSFW]), at least then she could have been called “Chrissie” by her schoolmates.
Also, it’s unfortunate this this girl looks so … well … tan. She looks more like she fits the earlier definition of Aryan as “Indo-Iranian” than the revisionist definition of “blue eyed, blond haired, supremacist puke.”
Lastly, I love the hospital’s little helpful name explanation guide. Aryan, they tell us, is a name of French origin, and means Holy. Riiiiiiiight. And if you believe that, I have a Reich to sell you. Here’s hoping that this poor baby grows up at least as sane as Moon Unit and Dweezil Zappa ……
UPDATE: Runnerwallah points out that the name was no mistake [NSFW], and that her parents really are White Supremacists. I hope she tells people it’s pronounced “Arianne”, and that her parents named her after the European space program. Then she can move to India when she grows up, where her name isn’t so unusual, and marry somebody of her own skin tone.
Not mine, but one of my friends has a cousin who’s named SkyLab after the space station which was in the news big time when he was born. He’s had to live with it. OK, this was in Andhra Pradesh. And if you’re Mallu, there’s no end to bizarre names that leave you wondering “What on earth were these parents thinking?”
Boy named Sleeby, twin girls named Animate and Sunimate, boys named Stebin, Jebin, Subil, Sibul.
I had two classmates in high school named Pandit Gandhi Bose and Betrand Russell and Marx. They all lived… Aryan Justice will survive too.
i feel sorry for her…she lives in roseburg 😉 i go through there a lot, the area is actually home to a lot of survivalists because it is the most sparsely populated part of the I-5 corridor, ergo, if the nukes ever landed, they’d hit portland and san francisco, but leave southern oregon alone. it is a beautiful area called ‘garden valley,’ but the weather is really the pits….
20K is a small city, not a tiny little town, no? In the U.S. anyway 🙂
roseburg is probably correctly called a small city, it’s in the middle of nowhere, so it needs to support itself.
I was thinking – or rather, hoping – that this was an unfortunate coincidence. Looks like the parents really did intend the name. (NSFW? I personally wouldn’t visit Stormfront.org at work 🙂
Even the “Aryans Invading India” theory has been throughly discredited. It had been poposed based mainly on racist/supremacist ideology.
I know a baby named Aryan – an Indian kid born in the US…
And, this is hard to believe, but a friend was just telling me about a Puerto Rican woman who named her baby USNAVY after she saw a ship with that “name” emblazoned across it..
I met someone name “Darwin” whose brother was named “Stalin.” because their parents–who apparently had no historical knowledge–thought the names sounded nice.
At least they and this baby had no choice in the matter and are exempt from blame (unless you’re a calvinist); golden-palace-dot-com is an adult who sold her name on e-bay.
Aryan is a somewhat common name in India. Mega star Shah Rukh khan’s son’s name is Aryan. Raj Babbar’s (anothe Mumbai actor) son’s name is Aryan (He has starred in a movie already). There is an aspiring actor (who has done a lot of modelling in India) is Aryan Vaid. Those are just of the top of my head.
The reason is ..”Aryan” isnt a loaded word in India. In Bihar and Eastern UP people will have last name “Arya”. Other last names such as “Maharya” and “Acharya” have their origins in the word “Arya”.
Hi, The AIT theory has been totally discredited in almost all academic circles. Some still believe in the Aryan Migration theory, however archeology is provding facts for the more relevant Sapta Sindhu civilization. Recent DNA studies done show that Aryans and Dravidians are not seperate races by any means.
Here is what Romila Thapar has to say about the AIT in her book Early India.
“Indo-European and Indo-Aryan are language labels, but in the nineteenth century these were also incorrectly used as racial labels and this confusion persists. The correct usage should be “Indo-European-speaking people” and `Indo-Aryan-Speaking-people’, but the shortened labels, Indo-European and Indo-Aryan are commonly used. Language is a cultural label and should not be confused with race, which although also a social construct, claims that it has to do with biological descent.
Ennis’s hysteria is bewildering.
So name your kid ‘White Supremacy’ and prove this post is mere hysteria.
Aryan and Arjun mean “pure” in Sanskrit. Given that Arjun was always portrayed as a dark-skinned person (or blue-hued as in Amar Chitra Katha and my parents’ paintings), I don’t think the term was meant in terms of pure of skin or genetics, but more of heart and mind.
Arjan and Aryan are interchangeable names in Dutch, still given to children and oft used as meaning “noble-blooded” by the Boers of South Africa.
People like to believe what they want to.
I say, we should all sign the hospital’s guestbook! So far little Aryan Justice has three well wishers – the first in line being the loving aunt who bragged about her niece on the white supremacists board.
We could tell her all about the origins of her new name. Wouldn’t her family love the support?
Yes, but the phrase ‘Aryan Justice‘ is a ‘racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival.’
As cicatrix said, the baby’s aunt posted her birth announcement there, which prompted these comments:
“Dear Aryan Justice,
Congratulations on your birth! We, the people of south Asia, commend your fine name and much appreciate the support! Even though we’re doing much better these days, every little bit helps!
As pointed out in the dictionary, dear Aryan, your name has long being an honorable one in our part of the world, and surely our fellow-Aryan friends in Iran, would agree. Perhaps an illustrious career in the Middle East awaits! Please feel free to visit us at any time, for we will always remain, at least in the realm on nomenclature, the place of your birth.
fondly, Sepiamutiny
Hmmm, that was the name (and backstory) of a character in the The Dirty Girls’ Social Club
Guess I look naive :(.. let me ask him again, this time with proof.
With my vignette on the meaning and usage of the word, I was merely trying to point out that these haters have misappropriated it and its actual meaning, meaning “pure of heart/soul/mind,” not appearance.
I wonder if the inspiration arose from the recent “wrongful incarceration” of one of their old heroes. Wanker.
While on the topic of unfortunate names, I live in a town with girls named Female, Aquanet, Toshiba (I taught her how to play kickball), Bobby Joe and guys named F’rique, Demon (pronounced D’Mon), Cletus, Cooter and Jim Bob.
I think it’s funny that the announcement page has info about other people born on the same day, and one of them is Julius Erving…. 🙂 I wonder what the family would think about their daughter sharing the page (and her birthday) with one of those “neggors”….
Aryan is a very common name in India. SRK’s son is named Aryan. The Aryan theory is has not been validated.
I’ve heard the USNAVY thing from a friend in Colombia too. Besides she claims to personally know 2 girls there in Bogotá, named Stayfree and Carefree.
I’d love to see SRK talk about his children on Letterman, and then see Letterman’s face when he hears the name …
Even better, SRK should show up wearing a swastika shirt.
About people moving to the NW seeking “all white” towns and the like, my family originally lived in the San Francisco Bay area. My father worked in the silicon valley. One of his coworkers, a woman from Guam, explained why she was moving with her family to a “pristine” city called Vancouver. She had the audacity to explain to my Indian father why she and her husband had to get away from “minorities” that were “filling” the Bay area. This woman was so obviously not white, she must’ve been mixed (her skin and hair color gave away her English-Guam heritage). Later, when my family also moved the Portland area (an area that historically has been diverse, though segregated, since its inception) I realized just how deep the Ku Klux Klan and other like-minded ideas reverbate with the communities here. My catholic high school was built on a square city block historic Chinese/Native American graveyard (not the all white cemetary across the street that covered eight square city blocks) because the KKK would not allow the Catholics to buy land. Some people are not that friendly, and one can only think that the deep seeded reason is race and ideas of supremacy. Sometimes it’s scary (I know people who have been attacked by people who profess white power sympathies) and sometimes it’s an underlying ill-treatment (like being ignored as if you don’t exist). Roseburg is one such little town where these people hole themselves up in, but their ideas permeate much of the area. Aryan Justice? She’s going to be born into a place that is changing as fast as the meaning of her name. I don’t think these people can continue to exist without their ideas being challenged everyday by education and the free-flow of information. The last time the KKK tried to march in Portland, they requested to keep their faces covered in those white hoods. The city told them they couldn’t keep them covered and the march didn’t take place. They’re cowards and their form of xenophobia is a cowardice that refuses to see that progress for one group is progress for all, not competition.
Dude, had she ever BEEN to Vancouver? It has a huge Indo-Canadian population, not to mention Asian Canadian.
Similarly, my father told me that he wasn’t thrilled about the neighborhood I was buying into because “it’s full of Hispanics and minorities.” I was too stunned to explain to him that our family, yeah, 100% minority.
what’s really sad is you can just see this baby as being a blank slate and all it’s ever going to get filled up w/ is hate.
also, this is why i’m ghastly abhorred by euthanization of animals while people are allowed to breed irresponsibly. I am totally in favor of having a Humane Society for People and letting the dogs run free. it would make the world a better place. Except that we’d all step in poop.
My name is Arjan, I live in Holland and I garantee you that the name Arjan (pronounce Aryan) has 0,0% to do any indo-european race theorie at all. Arjan is the dutch popular form of “Adrian” wich is the english form of “Hadrianus”. It means originaly “from Adria” wich is a place in northern Italy. So in Dutch Arjan is just a name like Piet (Pete) or Jan (John) or what ever Dutch name you can think of. The Dutch name Arjan has also nothing to do (as far as I know) whith the Sanskrit name of Arjuna. Dutch and Sankrit however are related as all germanic languages are indo-european languages wich have the same roots as Sanskrit. So is Farsi (Iran) and English too off course.
Please excuse my bad english 😉
The funny thing is that Arjan is a common Indian name, with the ‘j’ pronounced. In this case, the parents were white supremacists.
Yes, I understand so. White supremacists are as stupid as black, brown, yellow, pink or purple supremacists. Besides, they totaly misunderstand the term “arian” for it has nothing to do with the real arian tribes that lived in asia thousands of years ago. They (the real arian people) are more closely related to modern day Iranian people than to white european people, but Adolf Hitler was never known for his sense of history, or for any sense at all for that matter. But I am no expert on this issue; I just googled my name (Arjan) and saw this website. I know now that Arjan is a common name in India, and I have to admit that the meaning of that name (pure) sounds better to me than “Adrian”, haha! I think that whenever people ask me what my name means, I will give them the Sanskrit version and not the Dutch version 😉
Bey, Arjan.
The uneducated white supremacist idiots not only useIndian names but they also use our sacred ‘ swastika’ symbol. Ifact they wear swastika very proudly around their arms.They draw the swastika opposite direction but most people wouldn’t know that. Putting swasrtika symbols at Hindu weddings and other religious and auspicious occasions in India is very common. It may come as a suprise to the ignorant, uneducated and culturally challanged white suprmacist groups.
The swastika isn’t strictly an Indian symbol, the German swastika was originally taken from the Arkona swastika (or perhaps older, Germanic swastikas) which was located in Russia and the symbol itself was probably brought over from Iranian tribes settling near and in Europa, as oldest usages of the symbol is found there.
“Aryan” means “Noble/enlightened” and We find ourselves a great and noble race, and therefor have named our own racial macro-group after it. Many of the more learned National-Socialists (myself included) extend the usage to Iranian and Indian races as well, considering them founders of most Aryan civilization.
Darius the Great of the Archaemenid Empire even said: “I am an Aryan, of the Aryan race.”
With nationalist greetings,
Dan
I followed this brain-dead guy to this dead-end post via the recent-comments section. And now I’m like, WTF? Some guy named Dan is trying to explain on a 2-year-old post that the SWASTIKA IS ACTUALLY A GERMANIC INVENTION, AND ARYANS ARE FINE PEOPLE, SO HEY, IT’S ALL GOOD, DON’T BE ALARMED BY NAZIS ON THE MUTINY!
Uh, yeah. What I get for staying up past 2am on a Saturday night, I suppose.
sigh
Darius was about as Persian as Persians get, and Persians ARE ARYAN, you stupid stupid dumb stupid person. You want to call him Aryan and tell me you heard him call himself Aryan, fine, be my guest, nutbag. But he never once said, “stupid white people from Idaho / Oregon / Mississippi will be my spiritual and racial brethren, and you should round up Jews and people who you decide are not like you and try and kill them.” I think you’ll find that any of the “more learned Indians and Persians” (Darius the Great and myself included) would distance themselves from anyone who proudly wears the label “National Socialist” like Paris Hilton from yardwork.
This baby has more than it’s name to worry about. Did you look at her?????