The Extreme Right's Eliminationist Ethnocentrism

Key Insight

The extreme right is characterized by a conscious and constant concern with the reproduction of genetically different populations. Studies of white hate groups in the United States, such as the neo-Nazi 'Death's-Head Strike Group', reveal an obsession with 'race mixing' and 'cross-racial childbearing', deeming it the 'ultimate sin' and a 'symbol of everything that's wrong and evil'.

Members of these groups explicitly fear becoming a minority, believing that Black and Hispanic populations are 'breeding like flies' and will soon outnumber white people, often grossly overestimating actual demographic figures; for example, some believed Black people constituted 60 to 70 percent of the US population, five times the actual proportion of 12 percent. Leaders like Tom Metzger of White Aryan Resistance vocalize fears of 'extinction' and advocate 'whatever method you have to do to resist'.

This extreme ethnocentrism can lead to horrifying fantasies, such as a Ku Klux Klan member advocating the castration of 'Jewish and nigger males' and sterilization of females, chaining them 'like dogs' to destroy their reproductive capacities while keeping them alive as 'lower' animals. Adolf Hitler's Nazism also centered on eliminationist ethnocentrism, viewing Jews and Romani as biological threats to Germanic peoples through sexual reproduction, a sentiment that alarmingly remains relevant as seen by 'Mein Kampf' becoming a bestseller in Turkey in 2005 and US far-right figures dressing as Nazis.