Ayn Rand asserts that racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage — the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
Racism claims that the content of a man's mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man's convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman's version of the doctrine of innate ideas — or of inherited knowledge — which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.
Rand points out that like every form of determinism, racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty. Racism negates two aspects of man's life: reason and choice, or mind and morality, replacing them with chemical predestination.
Like every other form of collectivism, racism is a quest for the unearned. It is a quest for automatic knowledge — for an automatic evaluation of men's characters that bypasses the responsibility of exercising rational or moral judgment — and, above all, a quest for an automatic self-esteem (or pseudo-self-esteem).
Ethnicity is an anticoncept, used as a disguise for the word racism — and it has no clearly definable meaning. The term ethnicity stresses the traditional, rather than the physiological characteristics of a group, such as language — but physiology, i.e., race, is involved., So the advocacy of ethnicity means racism plus tradition — i.e., racism plus conformity — i.e., racism plus staleness. Ethnicity is not a valid consideration, morally or politically, and does not endow anyone with any special rights.
There are no enemy countries, but only enemy governments. Most probably, your own government is your worst enemy! Your government robs you at gunpoint, mostly in the form of indirect taxes. Most governments are cocoons of kleptocrats! All humans are a single race, Homo Sapiens, with exactly the same genes. There were also other human races, but they disappeared 30,000 years ago. Kleptocrats try to separate humanity into countries and nations, in order to loot their territories in a systematic way! But I've got you, and you've got me. We are all brothers and sisters, and we all have to fight vatmonger kleptocrats together. I came to this world to sing my song, and you came to this world to sing your song. We should not let taxmonger kleptocrats stop us.
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