Scientology and Prejudice

From End The Cult

• L. Ron Hubbard's book Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health discusses Zulus:

The number of engrams in a Zulu would be astonishing. Moved out of his restimulative area and taught English he would escape the penalty of much of his reactive data; but in his native habitat the Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe.

• L. Ron Hubbard's Fundamentals of Thought makes the following bizarre statements:

Unlike yellow and brown people, the white does not usually believe he can get attention from matter or objects. The yellow and brown believe for the most part (and it is all a matter of consideration) that rocks, trees, walls, etc., can give them attention. The white man seldom believes this and so is likely to become anxious about people. Thus the white saves people, prevents famine, flood, disease and revolution for people as the only purveyors of attention are scarce. The white goes further. He often believes he can get attention only from whites and that yellow and brown peoples’ attention is worthless. Thus the yellow and brown races are not very progressive, but, by and large, saner. And the white race is progressive but more frantic. The yellow and brown races do not understand white concern for “bad conditions” since what are a few million dead men? There are plenty of identities and there is plenty of attention, they think. The white can’t understand them. Nor can they understand the white.

• L. Ron Hubbard endorses the removal of all rights and either death or indefinite detention for arbitrary reasons in Science of Survival:

In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind, because by abusing those rights he brings into being arduous and strenuous laws which are oppressive to those who need no such restraints....

There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one which has anything to do with reasoning with them or listening to their justification of their acts. The first is to raise them on the Tone Scale by un-enturbulating some of their theta by any one of the three valid processes. The other is to dispose of them quietly and without sorrow....

The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost instant rise in the cultural tone and would interrupt the dwindling spiral into which any society may have entered.

• An HCO Information Letter from 17 February 1969 has Hubbard listing ways to keep ANZO and the Western world "from being deluged with Asiatic hordes."^[1]

References

1. ^ HCO Information Letter "Ron's Journal 1968 Australian - Anzo Supplement" 17 Feb 1969