Posted: Oct 08, 2017 5:51 pm
Shrunk wrote:Greyman wrote:No, but he apparently blames political correctness on doing the opposite to Hitler. "Hitler made homosexuals wear pink triangles, so we shall have gay marriages." f.f.s.
Is that an actual quote from the book? Jesus Christ on a cheese-covered stick!
Yes. It can be checked against context here.
Because we still regard him as the Demon King of history we think that if we say the opposite of what Hitler said, we shall somehow be living a better life. Hitler was a racist, so we shall be anti-racist. Hitler made homosexuals wear pink triangles, so we shall have gay marriages. Hitler was the ultimately Incorrect Person, so we shall invent Political Correctness, a system of thought which is in fact dominated by the unmentioned memory of Hitler and by being his opposite in all things, things to purge his baleful influence from the earth.
I think the final sentence in the above quote is a misprint. Rather it should read "by being his opposite in all things, thinks to purge his baleful influence."
Something that follows the quote shows a foreshadowing of Wilson's book on Darwin.
[Hitler] believed in a crude Darwinism as do nearly all scientists today, and as do all 'sensible' sociologists, political commentators and journalistic wiseacres. He thought that humanity in its history was to be explained by the idea of struggle, by the survival of the fittest, by the stronger species overcoming the weaker. Unlike the Darwinists of today, Hitler merely took this belief to its logical conclusion.