Der Untermensch Lyrics

Lyric discussion by azhag10839 

Cover art for Der Untermensch lyrics by Type O Negative

When you call a human being something other than human, it is a mandate for murder. The fact that so many are giving him a pass is really revealing, isn't it... Subhumans is what the nazis called Jews, Slavs, Romani, the disabled, gays, and anyone else who wasn't a western European christian. When you call someone on disability/welfare "scum", you sound just like a brownshirt. Saying "Peter Steele wasn't racist, because he had a Jewish friend", is exactly like saying, "I'm not racist. I have a black friend"...

@azhag10839 You are right, racist men even marry black women and see them as their house slaves. But as Pete was slavic, a drug addict, outcast and full of self-hate and also seeing the context of the whole album, I think the song expressed his self-hate and is a little ironic, as of course it is the US society that is sick and not the individuals and sending everyone home (apart from the native indians) would be a solution, but is not a very realistic solution to solve the problems of the US society. By the way later in his...

@azhag10839 Apart from apologizing he wrote "kill all the white people" to make clear that he is not a racist.