Fascism

Fascism and communism were the two great killers of innocents of the 20th century. Based on the ancient but unscientific idea of ethnic or tribal purity, fascists gassed, shot and burntof innocent men, women and little children. Such ideas of ethnic, tribal or religious supremacy are still alive today - notably in Islamic Fascism , which is Nazi fascism's true heir in the modern world.

Scepticism is our best weapon against the powerful memes of racism, tribalism and totalitarianism.

Women and children being rounded up for extermination by the Germans, Warsaw, 1943.The animal on the right with the gun pointing down is 31 year old rapist and mass murderer Josef Blösche , SS butcher of innocents in the Warsaw Ghetto. He was captured in 1967 and executed in 1969.





Anti-racism - Why did Europeans and Asians invent everything?

A far better answer to racist thinking than to simply assert that it is wrong and everyone is equal, is to explain why history turned out as it did. After all, why did Europeans and Asians dominate the world, and invent everything? (Whereas native North Americans, native South Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, Australians and Pacific Islanders invented little.) In defence of cultural imperialism The superiority of the west

why history turned out as it did. After all, why did Europeans and Asians dominate the world, and invent everything? (Whereas native North Americans, native South Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, Australians and Pacific Islanders invented little.) You can't blame people for thinking it's because Europeans and Asians were the best - even if they are too polite to say so.

it's because Europeans and Asians were the best - even if they are too polite to say so. But in fact, there is an explanation which is far more convincing than any racial theory. See Jared Diamond's evolutionary history: Why Did Human History Unfold Differently On Different Continents For The Last 13,000 Years? by Jared Diamond The book Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

Briefly, the geography of the rest of the world was against them: First note that if 20 people are stuck on an island, you hardly expect them to invent an advanced culture. You need large numbers of people, large numbers of experiments (different countries, different cultures), yet all sharing ideas and information. Hence Australia and isolated islands were constrained by geography. And a North-South axis of sharing doesn't work, because the climate is different, and hence the ideas you need are different. And travel through the region North-South is more difficult, because you are going to areas of different climate. Hence less to share, less travel, less trade. Hence the Americas and Africa were constrained by geography. To make it even worse, the Americas and Africa have further barriers to North-South travel. The Americas only have one tiny narrow route from North to South, while Africa has the natural barrier of the Sahara Desert. But an East-West axis of sharing does work - similar climates, easy travel, lots of ideas to share, lots of experiments going on in a great arc from Europe to the Middle East to India to the Far East. Europe and Asia simply form the only massive East-West axis on earth. This is the main reason why they dominated human history, and invented everything.

of the rest of the world was against them: I don't think this conflicts with the idea that the West in particular now dominates the world because of science , democracy and capitalism . This is true, but this is a later event. What Diamond is asking is why these ideas arose in Eurasia rather than in the rest of the world. These ideas are the culmination of Eurasia's 10,000 year East-West experiment with ideas and trade.

in particular now dominates the world because of , and . This is true, but this is a later event. What Diamond is asking is why these ideas arose in rather than in the rest of the world. These ideas are the of Eurasia's 10,000 year East-West experiment with ideas and trade. I suppose I'm trying to agree with both Jared Diamond and Victor Davis Hanson. Hanson on the modern triumph of western ideas, and Diamond on why those ideas arose in Europe as opposed to somewhere else.

Racism is unscientific

The other answer to racism is of course DNA testing and genealogical research, which shows we are all incredibly closely related, more so than most large species - which indicates that differences cannot be racial , but rather simply due to culture, ideas and memes.

related, more so than most large species - which indicates that differences cannot be , but rather simply due to culture, ideas and memes. Common ancestors of all humans Conclusion - Quite likely the entire world has common ancestry in historical times, perhaps as recent as 1000 BC. Discussion - Quite likely everybody in the West, and every Jew in the world, descends from the Prophet Muhammad.

In short, I am against racism not just because it is uncivilized. I am against it because it is not scientific. For example, anyone who claims there is a major racial difference between European Jews and other Europeans (or between Germans and other Europeans) simply hasn't done enough genealogy.

Racism is pessimistic

Racism is also pessimistic . Instead of saying that modern Arab culture is bad (which is true), and Arabs should get a new culture (which is definitely true), racists say we should simply give up on Arabs.

. Instead of saying that modern Arab culture is bad (which is true), and Arabs should (which is definitely true), racists say we should simply on Arabs. This idea is popular both on the traditional isolationist right ("Third worlders are savages who need strongmen to rule them.") and on the post-modern left ("Third worlders have a different idea of how to live. Who are we to judge or impose our ideas?").

Neo-conservatism is the opposite of this idea. Neo-conservatism is post-racist. It, unlike the left and the traditional right, is indifferent to race. It respects Arabs and third worlders as fellow humans, and says surely you want to live in freedom, peace and prosperity like us? In more cases than you might expect, the answer is yes they do - whenever they are allowed give an answer in a secret ballot free from the local strongmen and clerics.

Racism is genocidal

Any sceptic can see that tribalism and racism is pseudo-biology and wishful thinking. Strangely enough, racist writers never "discover" that theirethnic group is inferior.Racism is not the only genocidal philosophy on earth - communism and Christianity and Islam have also killed millions of innocents. It is, however,how racism leads to genocide, whereas it is perhaps (only slightly) non-obvious how communism and religion lead to genocide.Evil exists. Evil is a word we can still use, indeed theproper word to describe many ideologies and regimes in the world.

Modern sophisticates laugh at the terms "The Evil Empire" or "The Axis of Evil". But if regimes like The Soviet Union or Saddam's Iraq or modern North Korea are not evil, then "evil" has no meaning as a word.





Since I deny the existence of hell and satan, I suppose I have no ultimate reference point for what is wrong. I think national socialism is as close as I can get to a definition of evil. Mein Kampf The Protocols of the Elders of Zion - the anti-semitic forgery The Turner Diaries advocates another Holocaust

In the modern world, I would say Islamic fascism is as close as I can get to a definition of evil. There is no god, and there is no devil, there are only humans. And there are evil humans like Bin Laden and his young fascist followers.

The famous, almost biblical, picture of the German soldier shooting a woman and child.This photograph was sent home through the mail by a German to friends or family. He was clearly proud of his actions. On the back was writtenSee full size . From here See many similar photos To me, the mother, as she tries desperately to protect her baby, represents everything good, everything beautiful about humanity.





"Those Were the Days": The Holocaust as seen by the Perpetrators and Bystanders by Ernst Klee et al.

A brutal, brutal book.





Thankfully, everybody civilizedthe existence of the Nazi holocaust, and it is now well documented and has no defenders.

Everybody knows that the mid-20th century Germans systematically tortured and killed millions of ordinary, innocent and defenceless men, women, children, toddlers and babies. Everybody knows that they shot, starved and gassed millions of innocents in scenes from hell. Everybody knows that these monsters systematically slaughtered European Jewry for no reason.

So I don't need to provide so many exhaustive links here, as I do with the holocausts that are denied. Instead I will try to link to some uncomfortable things, such as the origin of the Germans' barbaric beliefs, its relationship to Christianity, the ordinary nature of the tens of thousands of genocidal killers, non-German collaboration, and Catholic Europe's neutrality.





A Jewish mother, stripped naked, holding her child, before they are shot.This is a dramatic depiction of the massacre of 34,000 Ukrainian Jews at Babi Yar in 1941.From the TV miniseries War and Remembrance (1988).Screenshot from this video clip Note this has been circulated as a real image. But it is a reconstruction. (Of course, reality was even worse than this.)





Israeli F-15 fighters fly over Auschwitz in 2003, in a moving tribute.

One can't help thinking: Too late. Too late to save all those poor people. If only they had such heroes to save them back then.

"We pilots of the Air Force, flying in the skies above the camp of horrors, arose from the ashes of the millions of victims and shoulder their silent cries, salute their courage and promise to be the shield of the Jewish people and its nation Israel."

See street view of Auschwitz.

See pictures.





The 9 hour documentary Shoah (1985).This is part 1. See part 2





All memorials and monuments of Nazi Germany were (rightly) destroyed. No memorial to this regime should be allowed to exist.

Rudolf Hess (died 1987) was the only Nazi leader who had a grave, at Wunsiedel. But this was destroyed in July 2011. Now, no major Nazi leader has a grave.





The only major Nazi grave in the world is vandalised, Aug 2004.From German article , 7 Aug 2004.This is the grave of Rudolf Hess The vandals here hardly help their case by spraying the vile symbol of a rival bloodthirsty tyranny on it.





In July 2011, the Rudolf Hess grave was (rightly) destroyed.

See images.

Now, no major Nazi leader has a grave.





Karl Silberbauer, the Nazi who captured Anne Frank, has a grave in Vienna.

Anne Frank has no grave.

Photos from here.

By legal means, this grave should be removed.





Memorial in Prague to the assassins of Nazi SS leader Heydrich.

Heydrich himself has no grave.







How I feel about Nazi heritage.





I could link forever to atrocities committed by the Germans and their many collaborators in countries all across Europe. It is important in particular to link to information that is generally, and lessons that are not widely drawn.





Trailer for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , the movie of the book The film and the book are so simple, could easily be criticised for lack of realism, and yet they work. They are incredibly moving.Every child in the world should read this book.

Search for clips on YouTube.

Don't read the comments though. These clips attract Nazi vermin like flies.





"People fainted, children cried. In short - Judgment Day. People were thirsty, and there was not a single drop of water around ... Then ... it started pouring. The rain didn't stop. ... We reported for selection at 4 o'clock. Mom, Dad and my little brother were sent to group 1, and I was sent to 1a. I walked as if I were stunned ... The weirdest thing was that we didn't cry at all ... Later on, I saw many more disasters. I can't put it in words. Little children were lying on the wet grass, the storm raging above our heads. The policemen beat them ferociously and also shot them. ... I saw how a soldier tore a baby, who was only a few months old, out of its mother's hands and bashed his head against an electric pylon. The baby's brain splashed on the wood. The mother went crazy."

- Extract from diary of Polish teenage Jew Rutka Laskier, describing a selektion at Bedzin, Poland, on 12 Aug 1942.