Throughout the history of the human species, tyrants, warlords, and plain old thugs tried to control the people they ruled, but not until recently did they try to control them totally. Hence the word totalitarian arose during the Twentieth Century to describe tyrants who believed they had the technological means for total control.
Today in the Twenty-First Century, such technological means is abundant. It’s not necessary any more to be inside the barbed wire of a concentration camp to be brainwashed and totally controlled. All the total controllers need now is a “mainstream” media and some kind of “social credit” apparatus.
In the first post to this Substack series, I wrote that there are basically three kinds of totalitarian: race totalitarians, class totalitarians, and pure totalitarians. Today I am going to start addressing the race totalitarians because they are at the forefront of the Axis of Woke, a world-wide movement, especially in the race-obsessed United States of America.
What, however, actually is a race? Sure, we know that “African-Americans,” as they are now called, are a race, and “Asians,” whose numbers need to be limited by “Progressives” in Ivy League universities because there are too many of them, are also a “race.”
Race, actually, though it has a biological basis like sex (sorry, “Progressives”) is actually an idea that comes from farming. In plant farming, a race is called a cultivar or a “variety." Hatch Chili is a race of chili peppers developed by the University of New Mexico. There are many varieties of rice, for example: brown rice, white rice, sticky rice, wild rice, etc.
When it comes to animals, animal farmers refer to breeds and breeding. There is a difference between a Chihuahua and a Pit Bull, but all “breeds” are races of dogs, and mixed races are called mongrels or mutts.
Throughout the history of slavery, slave traders distinguished the races of the human wares they sold, and dark-skinned people from south of the Sahara (“Bantu”) became a treasured commodity when sold as slaves in the New World. On most plantations, slave-owners had children with their female slaves, and such children had a higher status than the darker-skinned slaves until the predecessors of the Race Totalitarians cracked down on the “mongrelization” with something known as the One-Drop Rule.
The One-Drop-Rule has a counterpart in the racing-horse breeding industry, where the horses that who sold for the most money were the thorobreds.
So, where do the Race Totalitarians stand in the United States of America today, and much of the rest of the world?
The “Democrat” political party, which got a bad reputation during the Twentieth Century for lynchings, Jim Crow laws, and other attempts at total control of folks of all “races,” had to give themselves a makeover. What they came up with was the mumbo-jumbo vocabulary of Wokeness, the DEI jargon.
Behind the DEI jargon is the idea of “marginalized” races, which actually means people pushed to the margins by the “Democrats” themselves because the people the “Democrats” pushed were the “wrong” race. The D in diversity jargon means that the marginalized will become the masters, and the former marginalizers will become the subordinate humans under the DEI regime.
Who are the former marginalizers? The so-called “white” people. During the 20th Century, “white” meant, to the “Democrats” and those who agreed with them, people of good breeding, having not even one “mongrel” drop.
In the 2020’s on the other hand, “white” refers to an inferior race, inferior because of so-called “privilege.” The superior race is now classified as BIPOC. What makes the “whites” inferior? The detailed answer to that question is taught in whiteness studies courses, but certainly people like Joe Biden and John Kerry are good “whites,” because they have “Progressive” privilege.
The E and the I of DEI refer to “equity” and “inclusion.” Equity used to mean what your house is worth if you were fortunate enough to own one, but it now means robbing Peter (that’s you) to pay Paul (that’s not you.)
Inclusion is a tribute to the memory of George Orwell, who wrote “War is peace, freedom is slavery.” Inclusion means including BIPOCS and a wide variety of “queers” while excluding “white” men, TERFS, Israelis, and other undesirables, regardless of who they have sex with, which is politically irrelevant.
But now we get to the especially juicy part, because the Race Totalitarians have a fascinating history. During the last century, the most notorious of the Race Totalitarians was a political party called NSDAP, which stood for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, German for the National Socialist German Workers Party. Being a mouthful, even for native German speakers, it was often referred to as the Nazi Party. Of course you know who the greatest leader of all time was of that party: the grandson of an unmarried couple, Maria Anna Schicklgruber and Johann Georg Hiedler. Given that he was a bastard (in more than one sense of the word), Adolf decided to call himself neither Schicklgruber or Hiedler, but an alternate spelling of Hiedler: Hitler.
The plot gets thicker. Viewing himself as the leader of Germans Adolf Schicklgruber-Hiedler needed to redefine what a German was. Did that mean someone who spoke the German language? That wouldn’t work because as an international language of intellectuals (yes it was!) many people spoke German, including Jews, and if you’re a Hiedler fan or some other kind of super-Progressive, you might not like Jews.
So Adolf Schicklgruber-Hiedler needed to redefine what a German was, and his redefinition was handed to him on a silver platter by a bunch of lesser-known intellectuals who wanted to improve the human species by selective breeding.
But everyone wants to improve the human species by selective breeding, right? You wouldn’t marry a blithering idiot and have blithering idiot children, would you?
Well, I wouldn’t. But maybe that’s just me.
So what’s the problem here? And what was the problem when Adolf Schicklgruber-Hiedler was redefining what it meant to be German?
I am going to answer that question, but not now. I don’t want today’s post to be too long. Some other time, OK?
white slave owners raped their female slaves, not had babies with them. You make it sound like such a quaint institution. Conservatism is fascism.