In The Price of Freedom novel, was Tolwyn/Paulson becoming racist?

[nicewitch]

I remember reading in this novel how that Paulson told Blair to terminate Eisen with extreme prejudice. Let's remember that Eisen is black and black/darker skin colors can have conditions that are more difficult to heal.
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/black-skin-conditions
Tolwyn did authorize the use of the DRT bioweapon attack on Telamon that kills people due to them having weaker bodies.

 

[AD]

THere's a whole scene in the game if you choose to defect at the later time where Paulson is talking about the borderworlders as being less than human and that all the new personel on the lexington are of better stock. If it isn't obvious the Black Lance as in many ways modeled after the Nazis.

 

[Ijuin]

Tolwyn presumably set his criteria based on what he thought would make strong warriors (aggression, obedience, strength, health, etc.). There is no evidence that he added in any appearance-based requirements beyond the "intelligent and fit for combat" ones, though it was mentioned that the Gen-Select virus could be programmed to target any gene that its users wished. What it looks like Tolwyn was trying to do, besides sowing terror via mass slaughter, was to preemptively eliminate those whom would be classifiable as "4-F" (i.e. unfit for military service), so that human society would not be carrying the "dead weight" of under-productive members.

 

[Aginor]

Yeah, it is somewhat Nazi-like. But (just like with the Nazis) it is not only against other "races" (blacks, jews, eastern europeans and so on, in the WC universe also against Kilrathi and other aliens of course) but against everyone who does not fit into the "survival of the fittest" idea. The Nazis also killed disabled/retarded persons, and for the Black Lance a lot of the "normal" people are "disabled" or "retarded".

 

[FekLeyrTarg]

Also in the novelisation, the genetic enhancement programme is compared to the Nazis' project Lebensborn, which had the goal to breed "Aryan" people with women, who were single.