Boer group rule replaced missionary individualism with messianic segregation, later codified as apartheid
Evidence
26 “To this day the missionary is to the Boer the fundamental traitor, the white man who stands for black against white” (S. Gertrude Millin, Rhodes, London, 1933, p. 38). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2327 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Apartheid residential segregation began as missionary-sponsored separatism in 1834 — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1418; Apartheid originated as a church self-governance doctrine generalized across the whole polity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1515; Apartheid’s ideology rested on God-ordained separate-but-equal racial development — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1507 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Boers regarded missionaries as traitors who sided with blacks against whites
#complicates(0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2327