White Nationalists, together with related varieties of
Modern Wacko usually self-styled as Aryans, put much faith in the racial
integrity of the great white homeland, Europe.
Today’s Europeans are, in fact, the product of a series of
invasions over many thousands of years. First there were the Western
Hunter-Gatherers (WHG) who came from somewhere in Asia, likely way out on the
borderlands with China. Next were the Early European Farmers (EEF), who arrived
from what is now the Middle East. The names of these groups describe their
respective lifestyles.
The last invaders were the Indo Europeans, from the steppe
lands on the border of Europe and Asia. These people were herders, who had
domesticated the horse, probably invented the wheel, and whose language became
the basis for nearly all of the tongues of modern Europe.
DNA testing reveals that, over time, these three groups
mixed extensively and constitute the basis of European ethnicity – to the
extent there is such a thing and in light of the fact that all were invaders.
Others have pointed out that Europe was never an exclusive
white/Christian place and has always had some participation from those outside
the area. I won’t repeat their arguments but just add a couple of important
points.
First, if you visit the Uffizi in Florence and look at early
Christian art, you’ll see that in many of the earliest works Jesus and other
Biblical characters are portrayed very differently from what we’re now familiar
with – in fact, they look Middle Eastern. And, quite a few of the features of
those depicted in the surrounding groups are clearly African. The early
European Christians knew where their religion came from and were entirely
comfortable with that. It was only after the Germanic invasions of Italy that
Christ and the people of his time were consistently portrayed with white skin
and lighter hair.
Speaking of Germanic invaders, an interesting lesson for Aryan
White Wackos can be found in Roger II of Sicily, who ruled in the Eleventh
Century.
Roger was of Viking/Norman origin, the child of one of those
fickle snowbirds, Roger I, who went raiding and decided to stay for the
year-round sun. Perhaps Dad also liked pizza.
Of course, the ability of Roger I to get a good deal on
coastal real estate was influenced by the fact that his numerous blonde-bearded
friends were about as wide as they were tall and wielded swords and axes with
devastating effect. They would have been able to take out a couple dozen of the
Aryan sub-species with a casual wave.
At any rate, the son, Roger II, was a smart guy who even
while growing up realized that Europe wasn’t then the most civilized place in
the known world. His home was just a short sail from the Arab countries, and he
was so impressed with their knowledge that he not only invited Arab scholars to
his court but learned their language himself. Roger II was very much a Catholic
Christian, but admired other beliefs and built a kingdom that was famous for
encouraging religious tolerance.
Unfortunately, until modern times, few of Europe’s subsequent
leaders have evinced the open-mindedness of Roger’s Sicily. But the thread
never went away and the subcontinent’s greatest minds, those thinkers who
comprise the core of what we call Western Civilization, have always ranked
tolerance as a virtue. The racist ideas assembled by Nazi Aryanism also go back
a long way, but have nevertheless always been incompatible with Christian
teaching.
Aryanism is a demented ideology, full of logical
contradictions and outright falsehoods. If a master race is ever found to exist,
the only thing we can know for sure is that Aryanists won't be among
them.
I’ve mentioned that the genetic foundations of modern Europe
all come from invading groups. Perhaps the Aryans are descended from the
earliest inhabitants – the original, true Europeans? The ones who were already there
when the first groups of hunter-gatherers from Asia appeared? Well, based on
what we know about Aryanists, that could indeed be the explanation. The first
Europeans were -- the Neanderthals.
