Pros And Cons Of Aryanism

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History has shown time and time again how hateful people can actually be. From the enslavement of African Americans and Jewish people to the horrors of the Holocaust, human hate knows no bounds. This behavior is fueled by the false theory that one race is superior to another. The result was millions of innocent people slaughtered for merely being who they were. The supremacist mindset birthed many pseudoscientific ideals such as Aryanism. Aryanism is an evil concept that threatens many good people. Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be factual and scientific without the evidence gathered and analyzed by suitable scientific methods (12). The term is often seen as derogatory because it suggests that whatever being shown is deceptive and inaccurate science. …show more content…

The Nazi conception of Aryanism arose from earlier proponents of a supremacist conception of the race as described by racial theorist figures such as Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain (320). Their theories were based solely on scientific racism which doesn’t rely on fact at all. So basically, one pseudoscientific belief paved the way for the birth of another. This is only the first flaw of this hateful ideal. The leader of the Nazi party, Adolf Hitler, is the originator of the ideas that became known as Nazi ideology. He saw himself as an intellectual who was convinced that he had the key to understanding the world around him. Hitler believed that racial make-up determined a person's characteristics, attitudes, abilities, and behavior. All groups, races, or peoples carried traits that were inherited from one generation to the next according to Hitler. Also that nobody could escape the traits that were associated with their