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| Jesdyi Pethajek II, TK Jesdyi Malaga Pethajek | |
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| Senior Official Speaker | |
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| In office 22 August, 1956 - 2 April, 1977 | |
| Constituency | Senior Official in the KCP |
| Preceded by none |
Succeeded by none |
| Party Organizer General | |
| In office 9 August, 1982 - 22 November, 1996 | |
| Constituency | Party Organizer General in the KAl |
| Preceded by none |
Succeeded by none |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 28 December, 1924 Kravysjan Eik, Kry T., Arieles Kingdom
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| Died | 22 November, 1996 (age 71)
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| Citizenship | Kryfona |
| Nationality | Standard Kryfona |
| Political party | Kryfona Alliance |
| Political affiliations | Kryfona Conservative Party |
| Parents | Jezszys Pethajek and Tauga Anyi Malaga |
| Spouse(s) | Anta Vauke |
| Children | Tavarjes Pethajek |
| Residence | 9 Seperek Av. |
| Education | Tausy Preparatory Academy |
| Religion | Irreligious |
Jesdyi Malaga Pethajek, II Tejs Karya (For. Kryf. /ˈdʒɛzˌdiː ˈmɑˌlɑ.ɡɑ ˈpɛˌtɑ.jɛk/; 28 December, 1924 – 22 November, 1996; also known under the pen name Eyjek Ati) was a Kryfona Conservative Party and later Kryfona Alliance party member, an author, an independent scholar, and a vehement activist for the ideology of Impurism before its banning in 1976 by the Kryfonsparliszaiye. He served as a senior official in the Kryfona Conservative Party for 21 years from 1956 to 1977, and acted as the party organizer to the Kryfona Alliance from 1982 until his death in 1996 from terminal cancer. He was an heir to the land and Arieles titles of his father Jezszys Pethajek, Tejs Karya—he inherited these in 1978 and passed the land to his son, Tavarjes Pethajek, while retaining the title.
A self professed “Standard Kryfona supremacist” and self-proclaimed “species-ist” from the age of 23 onward, Pethajek was the only child of Jezszys Pethajek and Taune Malaga and was born in the Kryfona Territory of the Arieles Kingdom in 1924. Despite an uneventful childhood, he migrated with his family to Nylzsyrf at the age of 6 in 1931, the three of them having come to detest the territory during their time in it. In Nylzsryf, Pethajek was surrounded by “his own kind” and came quickly to love the city. Pethajek later went on to claim that it was these events that allowed the ‘superiority’ of Standard Kryfona to become apparent to him.
In spite of his aspirations, Pethajek never attempted to go to college and never had the money to do so in any case. Instead, he ‘self-educated’ from the age of sixteen onward, and partly as a result of this, Pethajek came to loathe non-Kryfona and especially the Arieles for what he perceived as the “perversion” of the world and its beauty. Around the age of 25, Pethajek began to take an interest in politics, and in particular took interest in the campaigns of the Impurists against the ‘unpure’ of Kryfona society and the “dregs of [Kryfona] Kind.” Although he did not formally join any Impurist group or organization in his life, Pethajek supported their efforts both monetarily and politically—it is likely that he was one of the most influential politicians ultimately in representing the Impurists. In any case, Pethajek’s political leanings inspired him to join the Kryfona Conservative Party in 1953, which had a considerable far-right following. Although he was at first seen as something of an ‘outsider’ as an outspoken Standard Kryfona supremacist, Pethajek’s wit and oratory skills—which he discovered early on in his time at the party—could not be overlooked, and he was soon embraced by the KCP.
Pethajek served in the lower levels of the party from 1953 to 1956, when he was promoted to a senior officer position by then-leader Adyze Agyn. During his period in the lower levels of the party, Pethajek mostly spoke on behalf of the party at small events—this changed when he was promoted. Recognizing the talent that Pethajek had, Agyn put him front-and-center for the party, and it was usually Pethajek who spoke for the party at national events from that point forward. Despite his controversial viewpoints, Pethajek was an enormous energizer for the party, and was a significant contributor to the party’s explosive growth from 1956 into the mid-1960s. During this period, he also began publishing his viewpoints—under the guise of being a ‘scholar’ named Eyjek Ati—in books.
After an uneventful decade, Pethajek emerged from the 1960s as a relatively radical man, which soon began to clash with the Conservative Party’s goals. Although he was only one person, he was an influential man within the party, and despite the efforts of at least one leader to evict him from the party in this period, he stayed high and dry. Nonetheless, he himself gradually became disillusioned with the trajectory of the party—it had begun shifting away from his brand of politics—and by the mid-1970s it was obvious that something had to give. Eventually, something did in the form of KCP leader Oszaj Mekelse, who drove the party to the left even more than previous leaders. This prompted Pethajek to resign from the party in 1977, after which point he freelanced until he ended up with the Kryfona Alliance in 1982.
Pethajek’s time with the Kryfona Alliance would take up the rest of his life, during which he “deradicalized” to an extent but nevertheless expressed supremacist views. He remained fairly influential in such circles, but by and large his association with the Kryfona Alliance marked the end of his influence in the broader population. After briefly being in the lower rungs of the party, Pethajek was promoted to a senior official in the Alliance, which he remained until death.
After years of on-and-off health issues that went largely unmentioned, Pethajek suffered a serious stroke in early 1996, which debilitated him and rendered him unable to speak. He spent the remaining eight months of his life in medical care before a second stroke killed him in November of 1996, at the age of 71. He left behind a single child, Tavarjes, and was enshrined permanently by the Kryfona Alliance as a ‘father to the cause’ in 1998. His legacy in the Kryfona Conservative Party is more controversial; although he is generally considered to have been one of the "better" figures in the party during his time, his radical and discriminatory views have generally disqualified him from proper memorial by the party. Nonetheless, some members of the party do observe his birthday as a "day of honor" to him.
Life
Early childhood
Jesdyi Malaga Pethajek was born in the Kravysjan Eik on 28 December, 1924 to Jezszys Pethajek, a Tejs Karya (land-owning man) of the Kryfona Territory, and Tauga Anyi Malaga, a peasant farmer from a neighboring commune. He was the single child of the couple who lived—they had previously attempted to bear children twice, both of which ended in miscarriage—and the single heir to his father's title and land, having no known cousins and no other family to his name. Despite the title of Jezszys, the Pethajek family was poor and effectively relied on sharecropping to live. Outside of a monthly stipend that the Arieles government owed to Malaga, sharecropping was the singular source of income for the family and brought in only very small sums of money.
Although the family struggled monetarily to make a living in the Arieles Kingdom and often had difficulty even paying for the house in which they lived, the early childhood of Jesdyi Pethajek was an uneventful one in which he was mostly too young to understand, or otherwise too carefree. The family only lived in the Kryfona Territory for a short period of his life—roughly six years—and he ultimately had little connection or recollection of his homeland, owing to the lack of documentation by the family during their time in the Kryfona Territory. It is clear however that Pethajek did not necessarily enjoy at least a period of his time there, and when the family moved to Nylzsryf when he was six, he did not protest the action. Pethajek was likely educated in a one-room school in the Eik, which may have been responsible for this apparent lack of enjoyment, however there are no records of his attendance and if there was a school in the Eik, it likely ceased to exist in short order after the family left.
The family's move to Nylzsryf in 1931 was not precipitated by anything in particular, but rather by a general resentment of the surroundings of the family and the desire to see and do more. Certainly the older Pethajek thought little of the Kryfona Territory despite his land ownership there: in a diary just before the family left, he wrote "...I am so glad to be leaving this miserable place!" Malaga seemed to agree with this, although there are no records of what she thought of the move. The younger Pethajek was old enough by then to remember things, and in interviews later on in life, Pethajek admitted to being confused about the move and where the family intended to go. As it was though, the younger Pethajek did not care much for his birth area, and did not shed tears when the family left for Nylzsryf.
Views
Pethajek’s rhetoric predominantly leaned on the inferiority of all races and species beyond Standard Kryfona. Although in his early life he was only of the opinion that Arieles were a blight on the world, as he grew older Pethajek came to detest dragons, and upon his introduction to Impurism, Tuszkeans and Yaraans as well. Much of his ire nonetheless remained directed toward Arieles throughout his life; he was said to have never befriended an Aryela in his life and was known to brag about ‘beating [an Aryela] to within an inch of his life’ during his childhood—although the veracity of this claim is dubious at best. Nonetheless, Pethajek could be and in fact often was violent. After reading the election of Layan Togirika—the first Aryela to ever take a seat in the Kryfonsparliszaiye—in the paper in 1987, Pethajek shredded it in fury and berated the sky over the supposed “disease” that now “blighted [the] great Kryfonsparliszaiye”.
Arieles
Pethajek was vehemently against Arieles. In recent history it has often been said that this was partly because of his childhood in the Arieles Kingdom and partly because of what he read about them in his early adulthood; however, this is probably not true. While such events did impact Pethajek and likely reinforced his beliefs of inferiority regarding the Arieles, it is more likely that he was simply predisposed to the notion already and these events served as confirmation bias to him. Pethajek’s father, Jezszys, was not of a supremacist bent himself but was almost certainly speciesist toward Arieles, and Pethajek noted during his life that his father often agreed with his “radical rhetoric … to an extent.”
Aryela do not have many benefit—they are often deeply disturbed, mentally ill, unhappy, deranged...
Regardless of the how, Pethajek’s anti-Arieles viewpoints made up the bulk of his early speeches and his early opinions. His primary complaints began simply enough: the Arieles did not assimilate or integrate with Kryfona society, and they as such were burdens on Kryfona society. This is evident in an early speech from 1954 he made, saying “...no matter what you believe, you must certainly recognize that many Aryela have failed to integrate into our society. They simply create their own little world, and ignore us. They do not care for our norms, or our society, or anything that we do. They simply are. And that cannot be for any longer.” Gradually, however, his complaints broadened to the conduct of Arieles: “The Aryela,” he said in a 1957 speech to the Kryfona Conservative Party, “are but a massive burden in all ways on us—they cannot think for themselves, they cannot behave themselves, they are not upstanding Kryfona citzens, and I have doubts that they ever can be.” In another he continued that “Arieles are abominable—they are an affront to normality. They are not phoenixes. They are not any bird that I know of. They are an oddity—a mutation. And mutations are perhaps best cleansed, if anything.”
Pethajek's anti-Arieles viewpoints nonetheless did not fully develop after these early points for several more years; in a keynote speech to KCP supporters just a year later, he added to his theories that "...[Arieles] only care for their norms and their religion, and not for the heart or soul of the Kryfona way of life. An Aryela is a mistake, genetically, physically, and mentally." In later years, he also came to incorporate statistics which "proved" the inferiority of the Arieles before Kryfona, namely that they were often diagnosed with mental illness at higher rates than Kryfona within the confines of the Kingdom. As he wrote in Inferiority of the Aryela (1962): "An Aryela is eight times more likely to suffer mental or physical handicap than us. They are twice as likely to be incapacitated. They are physically tiny—their brains are half the size of ours, some say..."
Although he was never in a position of power such as a provincial or federal parliament seat, Pethajek around 1963 attempted to influence members of the KCP in at least two provinces to consider writing ordinances limiting the ability of Arieles to vote; Pethajek by this point considered them not only a social burden, but a political one. In both cases, he was apparently turned down or otherwise ignored, however these failures did not dissuade him from continuing to crusade against Arieles voting rights. Infamously as a part of this crusade, Pethajek exploded on Aryela Conservative Front leader Yiene Andia in 1964 because he believed that Andia was unworthy of representing the Conservatives anywhere—it would "be greatly better," he was quoted as saying, "if your kind did not represent us in any way. Better we remain pure than be associated with such a deeply regressive species as yours." Andia had to be restrained from attacking Pethajek as a result of the conversation, and the Conservative Front nearly split from the Conservative delegation over the matter. Pethajek was briefly suspended from the party for the matter.
An easy solution to the Aryela:
1) Propagate messages to them, requiring a new shot.
2) This shot will act to sterilize those who go through. Kill those who resist.
3) Thus ends the Aryela infestation, and the defiling of Kryfona Kind. As it should be.
Pethajek's rhetoric against the Arieles sharpened for much of the 1960s after the incident, and continued into the 1970s. Although he was more forgiving after the run-in with Andia of Arieles conservatives, he remained pointed on the matter, writing in 1966 that "...[Andia is] no better an Aryela simply because of an ideological belief" and that "Were it up to me, no Aryela or Aryelaist would be allowed in our party or to associate in such a manner with our party, for they will simply taint it even more than it already is." The Andia incident likely influenced the arc of his rhetoric as well; beginning not long after it occurred, he began to hammer in his speeches during this period the "violent Aryelas" which had come to "infect this great country," and took up advocacy for mass deportation and forced relocation of these "guilty Arieles populations" throughout the Kingdom. Beginning around 1968, Pethajek also took up the banner of forced sterilization, at first for only these same "guilty Aryela" of the Kingdom, but later for all Arieles, regardless of wrongdoing. He did not incorporate this into his speeches, however, but instead opted to keep these opinions to editorials and his written works. As he wrote in a 1971 editorial, Kryfonic supremacy is no delusion, it is fact: "...If we were to, as we ought to, sterilize every Aryela below an intelligence of 85, only a few would survive, and those few would be the best stock available to us."
Drakona
Pethajek did not incorporate the Drakona into his theories until much later than the Arieles, but all the same he came to detest them and every variety of them. When he first incorporated dragons into his theories is unclear, but it was certainly no later than 1968. In a May 1968 diary entry he wrote of them that “...Dragons are detestable. They do nothing but spread disease and burden other, upstanding populations.” The first time he mentioned them negatively in a speech was not long after, in late July of that year. “We must not be fooled,” he said, “by the idea of ‘dragon contribution’. Who can care to name what a Dragon has done for our nation? Can anyone name what a Dragon has done?”
Pethajek further wrote of dragons in his Superiority of the Kryfonic Nation (1976) saying that:
Dragon Kind cannot be considered anything but a blight themselves, it must be said. They have contributed little to the world, and littler still to the Kryfona Kingdom. They fought once to subjugate us and make us their slaves, and fought once more to destroy us with their bombs even as I write this. There is good reason that so many of them are confined to their own countries—that is to say that nobody wants them. They are rebellious and trouble-making, and they spread with them a culture that seeks to to make the world worse. They spread like plague, and perhaps all too literally spread the plague itself. Certainly they spread their religion, which as I am aware has nearly two-million converts among us Kryfona. Their doctrine, of course, seeks to handicap all but themselves. Their politics likewise are detestable and anarchistic. It was a step up that their most recent nation was enshrined a dictatorship death-cult—before, it was deeply left-leaning and disrespecting of person and property. At least now perhaps they will keep the property.
Despite this disdain for dragons, Pethajek maintained contact with at least a few dragons during his lifetime, most prominently the right-wing activist Garane Lajane of the Adborthos-Yolatho Republic. The two were not necessarily ‘friends’ per-se, but of the contacts Pethajek had, Lajane was likely the closest one to a friend. The two remained in touch from 1968 to 1991, when Lajane was killed in an accident near Ratinethos—Pethajek did not attend the funeral due to his growing health issues, but sent his condolences to Lajane’s family. Other noted dragons that he contacted and spent some degree of time talking with included Sezine Eitein and Ysai Azaleire; in passing, Pethajek also appears to have known No'en Kepet-Nenathosin, a close relative of aiad Radina Nenathosin. Presumably because he hid these correspondences, Pethajek's contact with dragons was not known to his family and friends until after his death, and did not become a matter of public record until they were released in 1999.
Tuszkeans and Yaraans
Pethajek was not originally an Impurist, nor in fact did he even have a dislike of Tuszkeans, Yaraans, and other variations of Kryfona until he was introduced to the subject by Impurist theorist Velezs Dagarzem in 1969. Prior to this point, Pethajek had been at least uncaring—if not sympathetic—for the idea of Yaraan and Tuszkean liberation through the political revolutions the two factions undertook. In 1964 he had even spoken of the Pazem Tuszkeya as a net benefit for the conservatives of the Kingdom, if only because their presence would split the vote and Kryfonsparliszaiye further between the Loyalists and YKM, both of whom were liberal parties. Dagarzem's presence around Pethajek changed this, however; Dagarzem was vehemently opposed to the existence of the two revolutions and their associated movements, considering them to be spreading un-Kryfonic societal and political norms.
