hi from europe, i "love" watching "democrats" apologise for fascism!

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140. We will cover ourselves with sackcloth and ashes immediately!

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Fascist critiques[edit]

Drawing on the ideas of Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882), European fascists decried the supposed degenerating effect of immigration on the racial mix of the American population. The Nazi philosopher Alfred Rosenberg argued that race mixture in the United States made it inferior to countries like Germany, which had a supposedly pure-bred racial stock.[22] 1–2

Anti-Semitism was another factor in these critiques. The belief that America was ruled by a Jewish conspiracy was common in countries ruled by fascists before and during World War II.[22] 1–7 The Jews, the assumed puppet masters behind American plans for world domination, were also seen as using jazz in a crafty plan to eliminate racial distinctions.[22] 1–7 However, despite this belief, Adolf Hitler did not count America as a credible adversary of the Third Reich because of its incoherent racial mix; he saw Americans as a "mongrel race", "half-Judaised" and "half-Negrified".[22] 4–7

In an address to the Reichstag on 11 December 1941, Hitler declared war on the United States and lambasted U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

"He [Roosevelt] was strengthened in this [political diversion] by the circle of Jews surrounding him, who, with Old Testament-like fanaticism, believe that the United States can be the instrument for preparing another Purim for the European nations that are becoming increasingly anti-Semitic. It was the Jew, in his full Satanic vileness, who rallied around this man [Roosevelt], but to whom this man also reached out".[43]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism#Fascist_critiques

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Degeneracy thesis[edit]

In the mid- to late-eighteenth century, a theory emerged among some European intellectuals that the New World landmasses were inherently inferior to Europe. The so-called "degeneracy thesis" held that climatic extremes, humidity and other atmospheric conditions in America physically weakened both men and animals.[22]:3–19 Some authors such as James W. Ceaser and Philippe Roger, have interpreted this theory as "a kind of prehistory of anti-Americanism."[23][24] and have (in the words of Philippe Roger) been a historical “constant” since the 18th century, or again an endlessly repetitive “semantic block”. Others, like Jean-François Revel, have examined what lay hidden behind this 'fashionable' ideology.[25] Purported evidence for the idea included the smallness of American fauna, dogs that ceased to bark, and venomous plants;[26] one theory put forth was that the New World had emerged from the Biblical flood later than the Old World.[27] Native Americans were also held to be feeble, small, and without ardor.[28]

The theory originated with Comte de Buffon, a leading French naturalist, in his Histoire Naturelle (1766).[28] The French writer Voltaire joined Buffon and others in making the argument.[26] Dutchman Cornelius de Pauw, court philosopher to Frederick II of Prussia became its leading proponent.[23] While Buffon focused on the American biological environment, de Pauw attacked people native to the continent.[27] James Ceaser has noted that the denouncement of America as inferior to Europe was in part motivated by the German government's fear of mass emigration; de Pauw called on to convince the Germans that the new world was inferior. De Pauw is also known to have influenced the philosopher Immanuel Kant in a similar direction.[29]

De Pauw said that the New World was unfit for human habitation because it was, "so ill-favored by nature that all it contains is either degenerate or monstrous." He asserted that, "the earth, full of putrefacation, was flooded with lizards, snakes, serpents, reptiles and insects." Taking a long-term perspective he announced that he was, "certain that the conquest of the New World...has been the greatest of all misfortunes befall mankind." [30]

The theory made it easy to argue that the natural environment of the United States would prevent it from ever producing true culture. Echoing de Pauw, the French Encyclopedist Abbé Raynal wrote in 1770, "America has not yet produced a good poet, an able mathematician, one man of genius in a single art or a single science."[31] The theory was debated and rejected by early American thinkers such as Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson; Jefferson, in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1781), provided a detailed rebuttal of de Buffon from a scientific point of view.[23] Hamilton also vigorously rebuked the idea in Federalist No. 11 (1787).[28]

One critic[who?], citing Raynal's ideas, suggests that it was specifically extended to the English colonies that would become the United States.[32]

Roger suggests that the idea of degeneracy posited a symbolic, as well as a scientific America, that would evolve beyond the original thesis. He argues that Buffon's ideas formed the root of a "stratification of negative discourses" that has recurred throughout the two countries' relationship (and has been matched by persistent anti-Gallic sentiment in the United States).[24]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Americanism#Degeneracy_thesis