Nietzsche no racist? No nationalist? No anti-Semite?

To my knowledge, no one has gone so far in sanitization as to claim Nietzsche was no sexist.

But there are now feminist “approaches” to his work and feminist “readings” that I have not read and likely will not read; so I cannot say for sure.

Still, since Kaufmann’s day it has become common for his readers, translators, interpreters, and writers of notes, commentaries, and introductions to say Nietzsche was no racist, no nationalist, and no anti-Semite.

Not really.

And despite what the unwary, incautious, or uninformed reader might take to be evident indications to the contrary in his work.

So they say.

But, just as a man is not apolitical for having failed to write a book on political justice, he is not an anti- or even non-racist for having refused to gush with enthusiasm over Chamberlain’s silly Teutonism.

Nor does that make him an anti- or non-nationalist (German, ethnic, or of any sort), either, "good European" though he may sometimes have claimed to be.

Nor is he a philo-Semite, an anti-anti-Semite, or even a non-anti-Semite for having rejected or despised the mass political and cultural phenomena of 19^th Century anti-Semitism.

Be your own judge.

See these aphorisms in The Dawn.

272 The purification of races on racial purity and mongrelization.

241 Fear and intelligence on the intellectual inferiority of blacks to whites.

334 The charitable man on the Jews.

Why, the PC lynch-mobs who forced MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan and The National Review to get rid of John Derbyshire would have spared no effort to force publishers to refuse Nietzsche’s works as soon as they had got the scent, had they lived back in the day.

Nothing of Nietzsche’s would have won a National Book Award or ever come out as a Princeton Notable Book, you may be sure.