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Hannah Arendt’s ”The Origins of Totalitarianism” (Part 4/6)

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The Rise of Abureaucratic Order in Europe

With the growing bureaucratic and races principles, came a desire to justify the european belief that they were superior to everybody else. And so what was left was not like a nation state heritage you could be connected to, but now more nebulous connection between people on the basis of their race. So white people were just associating themselves across nations with their whiteness, and then seeing everybody else as being possible threats to that. The most notable, as it would come up leading up to notsy germany, being the jewish people. It's so much easier to justify violence against somebody else if they're getting in the way of your expansion that you see as being the only thing

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