Posted on 12/23/2014 9:39:35 AM PST by wagglebee
Unfortunately, many, including more than a few FReepers, are enthusiastic supporters of eugenics.
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Eugenics never went away. It was just turned on its head from white people wanting to wipe out other races to other races wanting to wipe out white people.
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I had no idea that there were so many.
no faith in natural theory of evolution, eh?/s
Micah 4
6“In that day,” declares the Lord,
“I will assemble the lame
And gather the outcasts,
Even those whom I have afflicted.
7 “I will make the lame a remnant
And the outcasts a strong nation,
And the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion
From now on and forever.
However you treat others, so you will be treated. Maranatha!
Good article.
You can count me as NOT being among them.
Theodore Roosevelt was a proponent of eugenics, as was HG Wells, Herbert Hoover, and George Bernard Shaw.
Actually, it is still very much about whites and other "elites" wanting to wipe out most other races and "non-elite" whites.
You have to understand. We're talking about Democrats! The left side of the Bell Curve, people who eagerly voted for and still rabidly support a Chicago politician.
Democrats are either stupid or evil. Democrats have brought this country to the brink of collapse, and eugenics seems like a poetic response to those who have happily engineered the disaster.
They've spent the last 50 years taking every opportunity to hate us. It's perhaps time to return the favor, with a frosting of "settled science".
It’s shocking.
Seriously?
The left side of the Bell Curve, people who eagerly voted for and still rabidly support a Chicago politician.
And you would do what to them exactly?
Democrats are either stupid or evil. Democrats have brought this country to the brink of collapse, and eugenics seems like a poetic response to those who have happily engineered the disaster.
Again, what method of determining who exactly these people are and what would you propose be done to them?
They've spent the last 50 years taking every opportunity to hate us. It's perhaps time to return the favor, with a frosting of "settled science".
Is this sarcasm?
I’m sure.
You’ve provided an interesting window upon the long history of eugenics in the U.S.
It sounds strange today to admit as I will that my grandparents were infused with eugenics thinking; it wasn’t unusual “back in the day” and lead to sayings such as, “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear” which was often used when considering a person’s prospective marriage to someone deemed to be an unacceptable choice. Similarly, principles rooted in eugenics applied to considerations of inter-racial marriage, i.e., “pity the poor children”. And of course, we’re all familiar with the old saying, “the apple never falls very far from the tree”, which I usually heard in referencing an offspring following the criminal career path of a parent.
In some defense of my ancestors thinking I’d submit that most all were well familiar with farming and ranching and the breeding of stock, cattle, and horses to produce certain effects as well as the cross pollination of flowering plants to produce new hybrids of roses and such. Thus, to them, the purposeful breeding “up” of humans seemed quite natural, as did of course, the sad example of what appeared to be breeding down.
Its a fascinating topic of research made all the more interesting by the fact that human genetics is so complicated. Our creator seems to have made a near limitless number of possibilities from human breeding. Just last week I observed with some amusement the spectacle of an obviously very bright child explaining cost analysis of a grocery store item to her obviously “dull” parent. The parent never did get it. And I’m talking a parent who appeared near in need of a drool bucket. The possibilities are endless.
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