Talk:Christian Lassen

Assessment comment
Substituted at 11:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Father of racism?
According to Prof. Shmuel Etinger's chapter "The Roots of Antisemitism in the New Era" Christian Lassen wrote in his book pubished in the 1840's that as opposed to the Indo-European who is tolerant and broad minded, the Semite is egotistic and exclusive. He was followed by another linguist, Ernest Renan who wrote in the 1850's that as opposed to the multi-tallented Indo-European race, the Semitic race is an inferior representative of human nature, lacking imagination or creativity, and its monotheism is the minimal of any religion. Studies of the History of Israel (meaning the Israeli nation) page 126. (in Hebrew) פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 03:02, 13 September 2020 (UTC)