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To: Dimensio

"Even if your claims were not completely nonsensical, it would not demonstrate a link between "darwinism" and Auschwitz."

From "The Science and Politics of Racial Research" (pp. 126-127), William H. Tucker, Rutgers University:

"The American eugenicists [such as Margaret Sanger] even made their own modest contribution to the plight of Jews in the Reich. In the late 1930s there were last-ditch attempts to waive some of the restrictions in the 1924 Immigration Act in order to grant asylum to a few eventual victims of the Holocaust. These efforts were vigorously opposed by eugenicists, especially by [Harry Hamilton] Laughlin, who submitted a new report, Immigration and Conquest, reiterating the biological warnings against the "human dross" that would produce a "breakdown in race purity of the ...superior stocks." While almost one thousand German Jews seeking to immigrate waited hopefully in a ship off the coast of Florida, Laughlin's report singled them out as a group "slow to assimilate to the American pattern of life," and he recommended a 60 percent reduction in quotas, together with procedures to denationalize and deport some immigrants who had already attained citizenship. For the eugenicists, Nordic purity was as important in the United States as it was in Germany. The ship was sent back to Germany."


561 posted on 08/24/2006 9:34:24 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

What is your excerpt intended to demonstrate? I see no substantiation that Ben Stein ever linked the the theory of evolution to Auschwitz, nor do I see substantiation of the link itself.


562 posted on 08/24/2006 9:39:20 AM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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