>>13697483A lot of the racism that goes on today in places like /pol/ is what is called scientific racism, AKA trying to find an quantifiable, empirical justification to be racist. Usually this means IQ.
The Nazis were not engaging in scientific racism. They were ideologically racist. Hitler was trying to create a new foundation for German society that was based on unity through race. They often made cultural, moral, and aesthetic arguments for racism, but they never attempted to quantify it because that wasn't important to them. They didn't need evidence to be racist, they AFFIRMED racism.
If you were German, you were Hitler's spiritual brother, regardless of your intelligence. Your ancestors were his ancestors, your language was his language, your struggle was his struggle. They weren't going to start gassing lower-class Germans just because they were low IQ. There was a place in Nazi society for a low IQ German.
They didn't care about IQ. They cared about their race.
The idea that you need to find an empirical basis for racism is a modern idea that popped up in the wake of Nazi defeat.
Moderns feel like they need to find an empirical basis for their racism because ideological racism was repudiated after WW2. They're subconsciously inundated with the modern notion that racialism is immoral and that it must be scientifically justified.
