Either divine or natural origin claims transform peoples into animal species.

Evidence

This finality is what acts as the common denominator between the pan-movements’ philosophy and race concepts, and explains their inherent affinity in theoretical terms. Politically, it is not important whether God or nature is thought to be the origin of a people; in both cases, no matter how exalted the claim for one’s own people, peoples are transformed into animal species so that a Russian appears as different from a German as a wolf is from a fox. A “divine people” lives in a world in which it is the born persecutor of all other weaker species, or the born victim of all other stronger species. Only the rules of the animal kingdom can possibly apply to its political destinies. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 595

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the theoretical affinity between pan-movements and racism: the shared mechanism of finality that converts peoples into fixed animal species locked in predator-prey relations.
• XREF: Core scaffold for later Islamophobia readings on how religious or natural finality claims transform groups into fixed species-like Others subject only to ‘animal kingdom’ rules. — connects to: In folklore, becoming an animal is universally understood as a punishment; The nomadic-wild-animal myth mirrors capital’s deterritorialization. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 459; Nature, women, blacks, and laborers became resources legitimized as rationality. — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 1064