French racism was more consistent than other national racisms because it stayed antinational

Evidence

It must be conceded that up to the time when the Nazis, in establishing themselves as a race-elite, frankly bestowed their contempt on all peoples, including the German, French racism was the most consistent, for it never fell into the weakness of patriotism. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 463

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how the Islamophobia field treats Orientalism’s genealogy — the French antinational strand of race-thinking preceding and feeding colonial discourse. — connects to: Europe’s racisms vary nationally but share target-selection logic — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 913