Why exactly do the liberals who are ignorant of WWII history think the Nazis believed "white people" were his idea of a superior race?

I don't understand why some of the most vocal liberals always use the term "white people" when referring to the type of people Hitler thought were superior.

His #1 enemies that he wanted to commit a genocide against were Jews and Slavs. Both of which are considered "white people" by the standard of whiteness that exists in American racism. Slavs may be disadvantaged in Europe, but theyre white in America. Same goes for Jews.

Hitler may have viewed the so-called "Aryan people" (What he really meant was Germanic people) as being the most superior, but.... since when are they the only white people on the planet?

His #1 victims, like I previously stated, were Slavs and Jews. Both of which are white. Further proving the claim that "The Nazis ideology were about preserving the white race" is just factually incorrect.

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SW-User

You're forgetting the fact that Hitler did not view Jews as White, as many White nationalists do not. White meaning European, not just one with white skin, (as even some Hispanics have white skin). That is what white in the truest sense of the word means. So, he believed in European superiority very clearly, however, like Madison Grant wrote in his "passing of the great race" book, Hitler viewed Europeans in 3 categories: Nordic, Alpine and the Mediterranean. He viewed alpines as the lowest of the European races and the Nordics as the pinnacle of human civilization.

So, while Hitler did view Europeans as superior than other races like blacks, he still thought that there were some groups of Europeans that were superior than the other Europeans.

Something else that is interesting to note: Adolf Hitler did NOT, I repeat did NOT view Jews as an inferior race as many claim. He actually viewed them as superior in many ways and has even admitted this in his table talks. He admitted that they are more clever and intelligent than most, and could take over a country far easier than other races could. This is why he wanted to get rid of them, because he thought that they were too smart for their own good essentially and they used their cleverness and intellect for evil.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SW-User That is also why he eventually betrayed Stepan Bandera in Ukraine and had him thrown in a prison camp as a "lowly slav".

He only let him go when they were losing the war and needed more cannot fodder between him and the soviet Red Army.

SW-User

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Yup. And I wanted to add one other thing to my comment: the fact that Hitler made these 3 categories within the European race does not negate the fact that he wanted to preserve the White race. He made it very clear that he wanted to in his own words in Mein Kampf and he did think that the white race was still at the top of the pyramid in terms of intellect, along with Ashkenazi Jews (ashkeNAZI....really? Lol) and Asians, as Charles Murray teaches in the bell curve teaches (racist pseudoscience).

SW-User

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Hitler thought that he was getting rid of his strongest competition by exterminating the Jews.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@SW-User What is really screwed up is alot of American and Canadian far right evangelicals have the exact same attitudes about Ashkenazi Jews.

MickRogers · 26-30, M

@SW-User What I'm specifically referring to is that the American Liberals who claim "Hitler thought 'white people' were superior" are arguing from a place of American whiteness which is based on how youre perceived not where you are from.

You can be from the poorest area of Mexico, but if you have white features enough to make you look like a white person, you're white. That is what makes Jews and Slavs both "white" from an American point of view. It's also why white individuals in America don't get to claim an oppressed status just because they have 1% Cherokee blood in them.

This is why the American Liberals I'm referring to are simply wrong when they make that argument. Hitler didn't care what people looked like, he wanted to make sure the most "superior" race was preserved. And he viewed thr Germanic people, specifically, as being the golden standard for that "race."

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@MickRogers Keep moving the goalposts.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Well, America did put Jews in American and Canadian concentration camps during WWII and even sent some to Nazi Germany during the shooting.

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes Internment camps were more a thing with the Japanese. Sadly our governments both refused boat loads of Jews attempting to flee. Definitely a national disgrace.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow The US forced the South American countries to expel the Jews so that they could be placed in US and Canadian concentration camps. The US routinely sent Jews to Nazi Germany and some Japanese to Japan.

And interesting fact is that none of the Japanese in Hawaii were placed in the concentration camps.