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 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 life he apologized only for this song and he described Mother Theresa as the absolute good and Hitler as the absolute evil. Sounds neither racist nor fascist.
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 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 life he apologized only for this song and he described Mother Theresa as the absolute good and Hitler as the absolute evil. Sounds neither racist nor fascist.
@azhag10839 Apart from apologizing he wrote "kill all the white people" to make clear that he is not a racist.
@azhag10839 Apart from apologizing he wrote "kill all the white people" to make clear that he is not a racist.