If only it were just the Nazis. The reason white supremacy still has supporters today is because its deeply rooted in modern European history.

Race‑science, or “scientific racism,” held sway across Europe from the late 18th century through the early 20th century—roughly a span of 150 years before the Nazis seized power in 1933. Enlightenment thinkers such as Johann Friedrich  Blumenbach (1775) classified humanity into distinct “races” based on skull morphology, while Georges‑Cuvier’s comparative anatomy (early 1800s) reinforced hierarchical notions. Throughout the 19th century, Darwinian evolution was co‑opted by figures like Francis Galton, who coined “eugenics” (1883) and promoted hereditary improvement, influencing British, French, and German scholars alike. By the 1890s, racial typologies permeated anthropology, criminology, and public policy, legitimizing colonial domination and anti‑Jewish sentiment.

The Nazis were simply the culmination of European philosophical and anthropologic brain rot inducing hatred at that time. That rot still festers.