Nietzsche and Wagner Were Both Wrong About Racism

Nietzsche hurt Wagner by more or less calling him a conman, and Wagner hurt Nietzsche by spreading gossip that Nietzsche was an onanist, or even a homosexual.

In my opinion, both Nietzsche and Wagner were wrong in the following way: Wagner was wrong in being an imperial or supremacist racist, therefore not seeing the natural drive of every race, including the Jews who he despised, to live and advance in evolution. And Nietzsche was wrong in centering on the individual genius, the individual superman over the group upon whom the superman depends (which reversed his earlier position). I think in this Nietzsche was at least to some degree overreacting to his bitter feud with Wagner.

The way this battle will be resolved is to affirm the deep human nature (all humans) of kin-centeredness and group selection, even xenophobia or racism, rather than repressing or denying it, which doesn't make it go away. The problem is not racism, the problem is selfish, imperial, supremacist racism, in which a noble Aryan or chosen Jew (and now Black and Hispanic) claim exclusive right to live and evolve. Sociobiology has been the latest science to show that human nature is deeply kin-centered and group-centered and xenophobic. To try to outlaw this is absurd.

This position will be smeared as being supremacist racist, mostly by supremacist racists, but this is the real courageous way to deal with racism; one can move backward or forward no further than this. All races seek to live and advance and evolve and should be allowed to do so in small, virtually independent states, protected by a light federalism. In the United States I do not see this conflicting with the Constitution.