Anti-monarchical sentiment is often mistaken for early racial doctrine

Evidence

François Hotman, French sixteenth-century author of Frunco-Callia, is sometimes held to be a forerunner of eighteenth-century racial doctrines, as by Ernest Seillière, op. cit. Against this misconception, Théophile Simar has rightly protested: “Hotman appears, not as an apologist for the Teutons, but as the defender of the people which was oppressed by the monarchy” (Etude Critique sur la Formation de la doctrine des Races au 18e et son expansion au 19e siècle, Bruxelles, 1922, p. 20). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2244

Categorization

• DEFINE: A worked example of Arendt’s method: distinguishing genuine racial ideology from political protest that merely uses ethnic language — a criterion to apply forward.
• XREF: connects to: Admiration for aristocratic rule slid logically into racial contempt — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 224