Hate is Based on Lies.... and bad ones

Illness has kept me from watching any "serious" TV and admittedly I was avoiding watching Hitler's Blood Oath, part of The History Channel's Nostradamus Effect series.  Now, people often misunderstand my thoughts on Hitler. Honestly, I revere the man in a way.  But, not for his atrocities. Anyone who is THAT messed up in the head and can get the masses to not only believe the lies he preaches, but do whatever he wants, commands a certain degree of respect.  It is amazing to me that perfectly sane people can be ignorant to insanity and worship it.   I wish I could get people to do crazy things on my behalf! Maybe I'm just simply not nuts enough.  I respect the man for his power; but think his followers are a bunch of numb-nuts.

Anyway, there are quite a few shows, especially about Hitler, where I don't learn very much of anything.  I came out of this with maybe 3 new bits of info.  But, I do not like watching the Hitler documentaries that focus on the hatred of the Third Reich and the modern day organizations that follow Hitler's message of hate.  It is one thing if hate is based on even quasi-truths.  But, this whole racial pride thing that Hitler preached is so ridiculous it just makes me irate. I just can't stand hearing about it. The people that believe this craziness are never going to see that it doesn't make sense.

This particular show was about the Nazi religion, which was a "blood cult".  Hitler preached that the German bloodline must be purified; that the Aryan race was superior. Having any physical contact with someone outside of this gene pool would literally contaminate the blood flowing through your veins. The religious cult of the Nazis was very focused on blood.  From this came German Christianity, where Jesus was a Nordic Aryan sent to earth to fight Jewish materialism.

Of course the most obvious is that Hitler hated Jews and had Jewish ancestry.  Well, that says something doesn't it?  If a man wants you to go out and kill people like himself, what bigger sign of self hatred is that? He was a failure at everything prior to being Fuhrer.  The man did not have high self esteem UNTIL he went crazy.

I'm going to try not to go on too much of a rant about this whole thing.   I waited a good 6 hours to even write this so I was adequately calmed.  This Aryan Pride thing....  Hitler said there was a powerful root race, the Aryans. It must be purified.

The "Aryans" were  people from the area that is now India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. They were called 'aryan' not because of the color of their skin, but because they spoke Indo-Iranian languages (Persian, Sanskrit, Hindu, Urdu, Punjabi, etc.).  The country name Iran actually means 'land of the aryans'.  They did not have blond hair and creamy skin with rosy cheeks though.  They did travel to Europe and are now known by a horribly derogatory term, gypsies. 

The word Aryan was not even used in relation to "white" Europeans until the late 1800's when the base language group that defined Aryans was changed from Indo-Iranian to Indo-European. That still didn't make all Aryans German. But it did make Germans Aryan.

Hitler said that Aryans were the 'Nordic Ideal".  Oh, let's go there. GERMANY IS NOT A NORDIC COUNTRY.  Now, in Nordic countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, etc.) they DO speak Germanic languages.  But the history of the Germanic peoples is not congruent with the history of the Nordic folks. Ever heard of the Vikings? Not German.  So, Hitler's "ideal" was completely not German. 

Ok. So now obviously Hitler was just meaning white people right? The white supremacy groups today are equal opportunity haters. If you aren't "white" they hate you. And nowadays, they have expanded to vigorously hate middle eastern people. Well, what does it mean to be "white"? White is a nice little term for Caucasian. What does Caucasian mean? The word came from the Caucasus region, which is between the Black and Caspian seas.  Wait, isn't Iran there? Why yes it is! What Bush loving American would think of an Iranian as white?

Truth be told, there are only three 'races' that have true biological differences, Black, White, and Asian.  It has nothing to do with skin color.  It has to do with bone structure and other genetic features that any forensic anthropologist could describe to you in detail. If your ethnic heritage is not from Africa or Asia, you are white. Sorry white supremacists, many of the darker skinned people you seek out are Caucasian.  Oh, and so are the Jews (the ones that aren't Asian or black anyway). By the way, being Jewish is a religious preference, not an ethnicity. Anyway.....

Hitler was talking about a set of characteristics, the pure race. These characteristics are not German, nor are they Aryan.  Blond haired, blue eyed.  An ideal exactly opposite of Hitler himself.  Who was he kidding?

What is even more comical is the KKK. They say you have to have "pure American blood" running through your veins.  Excuse me? So, you need to be Asian? The Native Americans are Asian.  Oh, you mean white American? A son of a founding father? Well, that makes sense because it seems many of them were also racist.

So, the question is, who in the world of hatred determines who is white? Would anyone of European origin be white? That doesn't seem right because anyone that is of what used to be called the "Mediterranean race"  (Italians, Greeks, etc) is genetically closer to an Arab than to a German.  The "Dark Irish" and other groups that got their dark locks and eyes intermixing with the Romans when they conquered the area, also have Arab blood. 

The truth is, from the beginning of civilization, groups have warred, controlled, and loved one another. Look at the great ancient empires and the large areas they spanned.  Those citizens had access to each other. Plus, leaders cross culturally intermarried. There never can be a pure race. If there was, it sure wouldn't be Caucasian, since mankind originated in Africa.

I want to leave you with one factoid. The show states that the origin of the swastika is a mystery because so many versions of it have been seen throughout history. They say that the closest is a Hindu symbol in the opposite direction that refers to the wheel of fortune and karma. But, they must not have done their research!The Hindus use both clockwise and counterclockwise swastikas, each with a different meaning.  Hitler seems to have screwed up and picked the wrong one.  The clockwise (which is associated with the Nazis) is a symbol of harmony and good luck. The Sanskrit word svastika means "all is well". The left facing swastika  (sauvastika in Sanskrit) is a symbol of the goddess Kali and magic.  Though is does not symbolize anything sinister,  that's probably the one Hitler was looking for.