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He was a white supremacist but not a hostile one; basically he believed that white people were literally intellectually superior genetically and should therefore be in charge... but he wasn't hateful of other races. It's a complicated one, like people say, very much a product of his time and this is what he was educated to believe .

People will say it doesn't matter what "the times" were but it sort of does... it's a totally different situation today where everyone KNOWS that there are no significant biological differences between races other than skin colour and other physical features, and to believe that one is "superior" one has to be actively ignoring the abundant available evidence and choosing to be a supremacist.

There was a thread about this recently though I think.

My stance hasn't really changed; measuring historical figures by modern ethical standards is daft and pointless.