Political Memes

It seems stan is used in a derogatory way, which may be offensive to countries using -stan.

surely the -stan is just used to say "place of" and not in the same racist way that words like "Bantustan" or "Germanistan" are constructed.

European definition of race. Race doesn't have a language-transcendent meaning. It literally means "arbitrary group that I want to discriminate against".

That's why in the US "race" roughly overlaps with "country of origin", while in Europe before WW2 the word was used to mean e.g. "the English race", "the French race" or "the German race". And sometimes the word was used as in "the human race" to differentiate between humans and animals. It's a purely meaningless "us-vs-them" term, nothing else. And depending on who the "us" is and who the "them" is, race means something different.

In Europe the term "race" fell out of fashion after WW2 (for obvious reasons) but the meaning stuck around in derived terms like "racism". That's why in Europe if a German person hates all French people, that's considered racist, while in the USA that wouldn't be considered racist.

Bonus fact: In many languages "race" is also used to describe "breeds" (e.g. dog breeds), and also there the term is incredibly vague. To create a new dog "race"/breed, you grab a bunch of animals, go to your kennel club and register it. Now you exclusively inbreed that group of animals. All animals that are descendent from exclusively only that original group of animals are now part of that race/breed.

That's not something that happens with humans, thus that kind of terminology doesn't apply to humans.

To get back to your question: If you apply the European definition of race/racism, this is racist against Jews and indoiranian people and people speaking Turkic languages.

Read the article? He didn't green light anything. As usual, a world leader left him in the dark because the dipshit might say something.