Word: aryanized
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Hitler had nothing like the domestic program of development and collectivization Stalin rammed through at the cost of millions of lives. He was really interested only in foreign conquests, and one in particular: an Aryan empire in Eastern Europe. Hitler was driven by a slogan-ridden ideology that he formed as a youth, reading cheap pamphlets in Vienna, and never changed. He had, Bullock finds, no capacity whatever for critical thinking. He believed the German "master race" had three enemies: Slavs, Marxists and Jews...
...undereducated white youth, a threatening prospect considering how cloudy and volatile are the thoughts and feelings Terkel assembles. This is understandable. Race itself is an irrational subject, which may be "the American obsession" but is not an American invention. The 3,000-year-old Rig-Veda tells of the Aryan god Indra's hatred for the black-skinned anasya. Han dynasty historians (right for the wrong reasons) believed yellow-haired, green-eyed people evolved from primates. The Babylonian Talmud attributes the blackness of Ham's descendants to Jehovah's curse...
Bright spotlights are trained on the audience seated around the stage. On center stage, the daughter (Cara Polites) of the mythic Aryan god Indra sits on a cloud suspended from the ceiling. These foreshadow the plethora of contrasting, inconsistent and perplexing images that are thrown at us in rapid succession...
...anyone outside the tribe. Evil works by dehumanizing the Other. A perverse, efficient logic: identifying others as evil justifies all further evil against them. A man may kill a snake without compunction. The snake is an evil thing, has evil designs, is a different order of being. Thus: an "Aryan" could kill a Jew, could make an elaborate bureaucratic program of killing Jews. Thus: white men could come in the middle of the night in Mississippi and drag a black man out and hang...
...condominium with his second wife Sima. Supporters describe him as a disciplined and sensitive professional, fiercely protective of his men. His detractors call him an opportunistic cowboy who makes provocative statements to grab attention. He has, for example, called Hispanic officers "lazy," described a blond television newscaster as an "Aryan broad" and branded his own son -- whom he disowned after the youth spent a year in jail for robbery -- "a narcotics addict." In 1982 he was officially reprimanded when he suggested blacks are more susceptible to dying than "normal people" when subdued with a choke hold. That same year...