The Boers twisted chosenness into license for lazy domination.

Evidence

The black slaves in South Africa quickly became the only part of the population that actually worked. Their toil was marked by all the known disadvantages of slave labor, such as lack of initiative, laziness, neglect of tools, and general inefficiency. Their work therefore barely sufficed to keep their masters alive and never reached the comparative abundance which nurtures civilization. It was this absolute dependence on the work of others and complete contempt for labor and productivity in any form that transformed the Dutchman into the Boer and gave his concept of race a distinctly economic meaning. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 505 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race-based dignity made manual labor degrading for Boers; Contempt for labor gave the Boers’ race concept economic meaning. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 505

Related

• Contempt for labor gave the Boers’ race concept economic meaning. (similarity 0.91)
• Race-based dignity made manual labor degrading for Boers (similarity 0.83)
• African colonialism taught aspiring Nazis that peoples are actively converted into races (similarity 0.80)
• Cheap native labor was South Africa’s natural resource (similarity 0.79)
• Boer slavery was racial adjustment rather than conquest or accumulation (similarity 0.78)
• Boer racism is a pre-ideological reaction to desperate colonial conditions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Contempt for labor gave the Boers’ race concept economic meaning. #expands (0.88) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 505
• Race-based dignity made manual labor degrading for Boers #expands (0.82)