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Part One: Rudolf Steiner: The Racist Who Invented Organic Farming and Waldorf Schools

Behind the Bastards

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Is There Racism in Waldorf Schools?

In 1995, there was a scandal in the Netherlands when it became publicly known that the Dutch Waldorf schools were teaching racial ethnography. In 1994, the Steinerite lecturer Rayner Schneur at one of his frequent seminars for the Anthroposophist adult school in Berlin give a talk with the rather baffling title, overcoming racism and nationalism through Rudolph Steiner. If you actually are anthroposophists who believes in all of this stuff literally, that means that you have to take his race science stuff literally because he's not influenced by the bias of his times. Remember, according to anthroposophic belief, he was reading all of this shit off of the Akashic records

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