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Within and outside of the United States there is often a stereotype that white Americans are an amorphous whole, a uniform herrenvolk who oppressed the black minority.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2011 For a party trapped in a personality cult and drunk on herrenvolk mythology, there can be no rest in the endless task of informing against and excluding the unworthy.—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 4 Dec. 2021 Fascism weaponizes identity, validating the herrenvolk and invalidating all the other folk.—Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 22 June 2020
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