Hotman defended the oppressed people, not Teutonic superiority
Evidence
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
Category: Definitional Content
- XREF: Shows the toolkit’s key analytic move: reading a ‘racial’ doctrine’s actual political function (resisting monarchy) before classifying it as racism proper — an interpretive discipline to carry into Islamophobia readings.
Related
- Anti-monarchical sentiment is often mistaken for early racial doctrine (similarity 0.85)