rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (10/03/84)
>> Remember Nazi dogma said that Jews were subhuman >> and it is a tad illogical to want to convert >> what you consider subhumans into your elite Aryan >> group, isn't it ? (if we assume Nazism is Christian ) > Pardon me for exploding a few myths, but Hitler found the basis for his > actions in a rather well-referenced (but little-read) book - > THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES > "Build a better race of people! Select those who are better and get rid > of the rest!" Nazism was evolution in living color - and living horror. > [BICKFORD] The notions of evolution (not necessarily Darwinian theory) are sound. (If you want to argue the basis for that, there's another newsgroup.) Hitler took these (presumably) sound notions and imposed his bigotry and preconceptions ("Proper selection will breed a better race; a better race means no Jews...") onto them. He added on top of that an (a)morality that purported that people existed only as a means of furthering the goals of the "fatherland", and not as individuals whose freedom had any importance. Not that this version of morality (the fascist notion that society/country/etc is more important than its people) was Hitler's alone or even originally... > The evolutionary philosophy doesn't stop there. The "Bulldog of Darwin," > Thomas Henry Huxley, viewed blacks as unhuman and unfit to survive, and > was fully prepared to accomplish natural selection - with him being the > natural selector (naturally :-). Same thing. In this argument, the soundness of evolution is not the relevant point. The notion of bigoted unfounded elitist ethnocentrist racism is. > But then, "Nobody expects Auschwitz!" On the contrary, as long as there are people who purport that *their* faith is the one true faith, that *their* ethnic group has some special innate superiority over others, etc., I will continue to EXPECT Auschwitzes. And Spanish Inquisitions. (Sacrilegious attacks at the holy words of Monty Python will get you nowhere, Bickford. :-) -- WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Rich Rosen WHAT IS YOUR NET ADDRESS? pyuxn!rlr WHAT IS THE CAPITAL OF ASSYRIA? I don't know that ... ARGHHHHHHHH!