However, as Jablonski (2012, 135) states: “In the history of humanity, few intellectual constructs have carried so much weight and produced such a river of human suffering.” As philosopher Charles W. Mills summarized (1997, 72, emphasis in original): “The embarrassing fact for the white West (which doubtless explains its concealment) is that their most important moral theorist of the past three hundred years is also the foundational theorist in the modern period of the division between Herrenvolk and Untermenschen, persons and subpersons, upon which Nazi theory would later draw.
