[budlt2369]

I think Darwin might have been a Darwinist.

[A. Pole]

Hitler was a child of his time, and a Darwinist.

[AntiGuv]

It's interesting that they discuss the Eugenics Records Office but not one of its two leading funders, Planned Parenthood Treasurer Prescott Bush.

[Dutch Boy]

I have some old encyclopedias from the 1930's. There is a chapter about eugenics. It is amazing that they thought this to be such a "humane" thing to do. Forced sterilization of undesirables was deemed as progress. BTW the undesirables were basically anyone not them, ala HItler's Germany. Old encyclopedias are a great way to get a snapshot into the period.

If I remember correctly, Vermont was the last state to remove its eugenic laws and that was in the 1970's.

[BenLurkin]

"Three generations of imbeciles are enough."

Oh heck -- let's go for four, five or maybe even six by now.

[labette]

ping / later
Hope the floor won't be too slick with blood.

[RegulatorCountry]

You've just got to scratch your head, when the left goes off on eugenics. Even a cursory glance at abortion statistics, as to just whose offspring are being eliminated, would highlight the obvious, that eugenics is alive and well. But, self-styled "progressives" are oddly blind to this.

[quietolong]

A good book to read:

The State Boys Rebellion
http://www.simonsays.com/content/content.cfm?sid=33&pid=422319

It’s interesting that Germany looked to the US for it’s ideas on eugenics.

Excerpt from link:

Though they couldn't possible know it, the children of the Fernald State School were the victims of bad science and a newly developed bureaucracy designed to save America from the so-called "menace of the feebleminded." Beginning early in the twentieth century, United States health officials used crude versions of the modern IQ tests to identify supposedly "deficient" children and lock them away. The idea was to protect society from potential criminals and to prevent so-called undesirables from having children and degrading the American gene pool......

...... It reveals the danger in misguided science, the fearsome power of unchecked bureaucracies,

[jordan8]

Many in this country are also weary of rampant immigration. Pat Buchanan’s latest book, The Death of the West, warns of a "clear and present danger" from declining birth rates and uncontrolled immigration of peoples of "different colors, creed, and cultures." In the wake of September 11, dozens of Americans of Middle-eastern descent were the targets of unwarranted reprisals.

Oh please. The mere desire of people to continue existing isn't racism, a fact this author would probably support if the people objecting were, say, Amazonian Indians. Every time Time and Newsweek features a nut brown everyman as the future American, that's eugenics. Present day immigration programs are eugenics, consciously designed to breed out an undesirable biological characteristic, whiteness, a eugenics program apparently supported by these authors. It is also an enemy of freedom, since multiethnic empires have always been less free here in the real world that is, as opposed to the world of ivory tower theories.

[quietolong]

Roe attorney: Use abortion to 'eliminate poor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631548/posts

[metalurgist]

society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind…Three generations of imbeciles are enough." — Supreme Court Justice Oliver

He's right. Let's start with the Kennedy's and the Dodds.