Is racism the ultimate evil?
From the way Leftists talk, one would certainly get the impression that racism is the ultimate evil. In the 2008 Presidential campaign, an amazing number of utterances by Obama foes were twisted out of all recognition in an attempt to portray them as racist.
I would argue that things like dishonesty, lack of reality contact and emotionalism are far more detrimental to overall human welfare but, judging by their own most usual method of argument, Leftists are quite comfortable with such phenomena.
Leftists normally justify their paranoia about racism by referring to Hitler. They say that Hitler’s treatment of the Jews shows just how evil racism is. But Jews are not a race! It is only your religious heritage that makes you a Jew. Judging by the number of blue-eyed Jews around, Jews are in fact quite mixed racially.
So Hitler’s deeds cannot be put down to racism. They could however be seen as an example of religious bigotry and are thus yet another example of how destructive religious bigotry can be. And who are the main religious bigots today? Muslims and Leftists. The furious hatred that Leftists pour out on Christianity is quite virulent religious bigotry. So, as in other ways, it is Leftists, not racists who are Hitler’s real heirs.
Even the well-known claim by Hitler that Germans are a Herrenvolk can only be portrayed as racist by mistranslation. It is commonly translated as “master race” but that is not what it means at all. The German word for race is Rasse and if Hitler had meant “Master race”, he would have said Herrenrasse. But he didn’t. Volk means “people” and is related to the English word “folk”. So Hitler was quite clearly referring to a “Master people”, not a master race.
And note that in the old Communist East Germany, they used Volk a lot. East German products used all to bear the brand “VEB”, which stands for Volkseigenebetrieb, or “people’s own enterprise”. So were the Communist East Germans racist? Were they portraying their products as coming from the East German race? I think the answer is obvious to anybody but a Leftist intellectual.
Ultimately, the Jews were simply convenient to Hitler — a group on whom all problems could traditionally be blamed: A scapegoat. His treatment of them was politically useful, not an outcome of racism. He treated many groups harshly, including clearly religious groups. One instance of that was Jehovah’s Witnesses, then known in Germany as Ernste Bibelforscher. Because they refused to be conscripted into Germany’s armed forces, they too went to the concentration camps.
I have said more about these matters on DISSECTING LEFTISM recently.
Update:
Trying to be accurate has its perils. I gather that some have seen what I said above as a defence of Hitler. Nothing I said above does that. I said that Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat, which is far and away the most common summary of his actions. By noting that his savagery extended to all sorts of groups, I think I have in fact shown that he was worse than a racist. The entire nation of Britain was racist in the 19th century. They thought that to be born British was to be born superior. Yet they did nothing remotely resembling what Hitler did. They in fact made a Jew their Prime Minister.
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Posted by JonJayRay on December 17, 2008 9:51 am
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So-called racism is simply the survival instinct. There is nothing evil in the impulse to preserve and prefer your own offspring to those of others. Those more like you to those less like you. Family group over non-family group. That’s biology. The less evolved races still practice it in it’s most basic form to their ever increasing advancement. Blacks in southern Africa sit today without food, power, or medicine when under White rule they had all of these things. They prefer to be ruled poorly by their own than competently by Whites.
Without what the Left calls “racism”, no race shall survive. If Whites do not return to race reality quite soon, then we can put the lights out forever. We shall be engulfed, and destroyed. Cicero, Shakespeare, Mozart, Newton, the vast achievements of our culture will be torn by the pack of wild dogs who supplant us. Opposing that future is a noble cause, not a character defect.
You claim the jews are not a race, that may be true but it certainly is debatable, afterall Jewish are overwhelmingly either members of two different groups (Ashkenazi or Sephardic.) However even if you are correct in that the Jews are not a race, the Nazi’s definately considered them one. For instance the Nuremburg laws obviously were written with the idea that Jewishness is a race. Also you totally overlook the Roma, who were also persecuted and were also subject to genocide, and who most definately are a racial group instead of a religious one.
The problem is that most lefties are racists. There is more hate crime in blue states that red states though some could be called gang crimes instead; that is to say Hispanic v Black gangs.