User talk:Fred
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[edit] KISS
Not the band... Please any comments on my edits or simple wikipedia here. Fred
[edit] Welcome
Hello, Fred, and welcome to the Simple English Wikipedia! I hope you will be happy helping here. You should begin by reading these pages: Wikipedia:Useful, Help:Contents, Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, and how to write Simple English articles. If you want some ideas of which pages to work on, read Wikipedia:Requested articles or the list of wanted pages.
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Good luck and happy editing! -- Eptalon 21:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Master race
You are of course correct that the "concepts" racism is based on look silly to most, nowadays. I nevertheless want to say that this "racial theory" emerged in the 19th century, and that bright minds like Arthur Schopenhauer commented (favorably) on it. I tried to put some of this into the article, basing myself on the English one. Plese improve as you see fit; I think the article still needs a lot of work. Otherwise: Great start -- Eptalon 21:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Thanks for the compliments
Hello again. Yes, I spent quite a bit of time learning English (as a second language); thank you for the compliments. Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the greatest minds of his century, if not one of the greatest philosophers of the modern age. His relations (or call them links) to racial ideas is not fully understood. Personally, I am sick of the one-sided views given on Hitler, on subjects relating to Germany between the wars, and to racist ideas in general. Yes, racism polarises; but given the poor education Hitler had, it is unlikely that he came up with anything new. The minds of the party were others. The theories of Racism they used are largely based on the works by the people I mentioned in the article. Such ideas were popular. Together with some nationalism, and general unhappiness these were one of the main causes of the First World war.
The idea behind such an article therefore needs to be to give an unbiased view of how things were back then. That is the aim we need to strive for. Wikipedia is a community project, so the knowledge accumulates. Best regards. -- Eptalon 14:14, 6 January 2007 (UTC)