Hannah Arendt was also an extremely racist bastard who believed “totalitarianism” originated in “Oriental despotism” “encroaching” open pure, progressive European individualism.
From The Origins of Totalitarianism Like, it can’t be stressed enough how much the entire idea of “totalitarianism” is rooted in deeply racist, colonialist, orientalist thought.
She also thought desegregation, i.e. black people having the same rights as white people, was a form of “totalitarianism.”
