Authoritarians Weapons – Racism
Authoritarians have many pillars of support for their reign of terror. This post concerns the use of racism. When a nasty dictatorship takes over, history shows it never ends well for those they blame as causes for problems. They love to create hate and fear of those who are different from the ruling class. This has been historical and underlying cause of many countries failures. Class and race are used as weapons on the masses.
Fear and Loathing
Your typical want to be dictator will spout in diatribes and negative terms about those who are different from them. They do this based on other cultures, race and even eye color. Some leaders push silly ideas based on a master race. Therefore, current science facts are ignored. The fearless leader uses sex and racial discrimination like it is going out of style. Current authoritarians leader are oftem clueless that biology sciences show humans are 99.8% similar in our DNA. Remeber, they just don’t care. Of the primates, humans have the least genetic diversity of the great primates. Science article on DNA
Weaponizing – Racism
Consequently, they weaponize racism. It is actually pretty easy to do. You have the “in” group and they create the “out” group.
Summary
Racism used as a tool is a very quick indicator of a dictator. It is one of the many signs that give them away!