Curtis Yarvin's Rhodesian Ideal

• Yarvin admired Rhodesia, a white-minority ruled state in Africa, as being close to his ideal political system.
• He praised Ian Smith, Rhodesia's leader, as the "last great Englishman" who fought for a system where a "natural biological elite" rules.
• Yarvin identifies as a "neo-McCarthyist" and believes figures like Smith and Joe McCarthy will be vindicated in the future.

Alternative View: Rhodesia's white minority rule was a brutal apartheid regime that suppressed the black majority, leading to a bloody civil war. Yarvin's romanticized view ignores this historical context.

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HOT TAKE: Is Yarvin's vision of a "natural biological elite" a thinly veiled endorsement of eugenics?