Okay, so I don’t want to get too excited by this, I mean, I could have been reading his writings wrong, but I think in class today we began to prove one of Nietzsche’s theories wrong! Wikipedia, Cliffsnotes, and Sparknotes doesn’t really go into much detail about this, so let me explain it really quickly: in Nietzsche’s book, On the Genealogy of Morals, he has a chapter called “Good and Evil, Good and Bad”. In one part of this chapter, he says that those in power one day looked at themselves, and said that they liked being themselves, and therefore they were good. They described themselves as anything that isn’t them as not good (so therefore bad). For example, if you’re not straight (good), then you’re gay (bad). If you’re not male (good), then you’re female (bad). Each of the lesser beings are merely defined as what the greater ones aren’t… I believed in this theory until today.
Today we discussed the idea that white people could not have any “black blood” in them. Aka, in order to be white, you can’t have any African Americans in your family tree, or in simpler terms: in order to be white (good), you can’t be black (bad). WAIT A MINUTE!!! This can’t be right according to the theory! His theory says the good define the bad as not themselves, not the good define themselves as not being bad! I know that this sounds like only a slight difference, but this small difference can determine how the “good” define themselves and see the world!
Okay, I know this isn’t a philosophy class, but still, it’s interesting how the hatred towards African Americans can be so different than any other hatred that I know.
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