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− | '''Eugenics''' was/is a project of the US ruling class to try to secure privilege.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/613_-_The_Economic_Disposal_of_The_Worthless_(The_Hidden_History_of_Eugenics_in_USA)</ref> The motivation to better the health and intelligence of people with the attempt to guide procreation may in itself not be objectionable to many people. However, the | + | '''Eugenics''' was/is a project of the US ruling class to try to secure privilege.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/613_-_The_Economic_Disposal_of_The_Worthless_(The_Hidden_History_of_Eugenics_in_USA)</ref> The motivation to better the health and intelligence of people with the attempt to guide procreation may in itself not be objectionable to many people. However, the underlying motivation of some apologist for Eugenics is probably well expressed with this quote: |
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|text=You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try every other Method that can serve to Extirpate this Excerable Race. I should be very glad (if) your scheme for hunting them down by Dogs could take effect ... I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any savage that may come in our way, than to be perpetually doubtful whether they are Friends or Foes ... | |text=You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try every other Method that can serve to Extirpate this Excerable Race. I should be very glad (if) your scheme for hunting them down by Dogs could take effect ... I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any savage that may come in our way, than to be perpetually doubtful whether they are Friends or Foes ... | ||
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− | + | This sentence in a letter by Amherst shows the attitude towards enemy's in what he considers warfare, but it stands to reason that this position extends more or less to all he considers undesirable. | |
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+ | The English eugenics movement promoted eugenics through selective breeding for positive traits (which were to be found in England’s upper classes). In contrast, the eugenics movement in the US focused on eliminating “undesirable” traits that were concentrated in poor, uneducated, and minority populations. In an attempt to prevent these groups from propagating, eugenicists helped drive legislation for their [[forced sterilization]].<ref>https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/america-s-hidden-history-the-eugenics-movement-123919444/</ref> The Eugenic movement is likely continued by [[Genetics]]. | ||
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==Weblinks== | ==Weblinks== | ||
− | [https://web.archive.org/web/20040915224412/http://www.eugenics.net/papers/caseforeugenics.html The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell by Marian Van Court] | + | [https://web.archive.org/web/20040915224412/http://www.eugenics.net/papers/caseforeugenics.html The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell] by Marian Van Court<br> |
+ | [https://knowgenetics.org/history-of-eugenics/ Introduction to Eugenics] | ||
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Eugenics (“racism”, polarising perspective) | |
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Start | 1883 |
Founder(s) | Francis Galton |
Interest of | • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • Galton Institute • Bill Gates • Madison Grant • Kaiser Wilhelm Institute • Population Council • Rockefeller Foundation • Margaret Sanger • George Bernard Shaw • Swissmedic • The Corbett Report |
Eugenics was/is a project of the US ruling class to try to secure privilege.[1] The motivation to better the health and intelligence of people with the attempt to guide procreation may in itself not be objectionable to many people. However, the underlying motivation of some apologist for Eugenics is probably well expressed with this quote:
“You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try every other Method that can serve to Extirpate this Excerable Race. I should be very glad (if) your scheme for hunting them down by Dogs could take effect ... I would rather chuse the liberty to kill any savage that may come in our way, than to be perpetually doubtful whether they are Friends or Foes ...”
Jeffrey Amherst [2]
This sentence in a letter by Amherst shows the attitude towards enemy's in what he considers warfare, but it stands to reason that this position extends more or less to all he considers undesirable.
The English eugenics movement promoted eugenics through selective breeding for positive traits (which were to be found in England’s upper classes). In contrast, the eugenics movement in the US focused on eliminating “undesirable” traits that were concentrated in poor, uneducated, and minority populations. In an attempt to prevent these groups from propagating, eugenicists helped drive legislation for their forced sterilization.[3] The Eugenic movement is likely continued by Genetics.
Weblinks
The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell by Marian Van Court
Introduction to Eugenics
Examples
Page name | Description |
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Abortion | |
Aktion T4 | Nazi Germany euthanasia programme. |
Autism | A serious mental condition which is poorly understood. Agreed to be on the rise, the reasons for this are disputed. |
Autistic genocide clock | The genocide of people with autism. A part of eugenics. |
Do not resuscitate orders | A form of COVID-19/Euthanasia |
Wickliffe Draper | |
Madison Grant | "Hitler's American guru" |
Great Replacement | A "conspiracy theory", popularised in France in 2011. |
Sterilization campaign | Large-scale and well organized sterilization efforts for population control and reduction. |
Related Quotations
Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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Nighat Arif | “Will the covid vaccine affect my fertility? There is absolutely no evidence that Covid-19/Vaccines can affect the fertility of a woman or a man there is very strong data that shows that men and women have gone on to fall pregnant after having both doses of the vaccine there's no need to avoid pregnancy after vaccination as the vaccine cannot give your baby COVID-19. The British Fertility Society and the World Health Organization and the JCVI have all looked at the latest data and research and they say that the vaccines are safe and encourage everyone to please take the vaccine when you are offered.” | Nighat Arif | 24 May 2021 |
Madison Grant | “A rigid system of selection through the elimination of those who are weak or unfit—in other words social failures—would solve the whole question in one hundred years, as well as enable us to get rid of the undesirables who crowd our jails, hospitals, and insane asylums. The individual himself can be nourished, educated and protected by the community during his lifetime, but the state through sterilization must see to it that his line stops with him, or else future generations will be cursed with an ever increasing load of misguided sentimentalism. This is a practical, merciful, and inevitable solution of the whole problem, and can be applied to an ever widening circle of social discards, beginning always with the criminal, the diseased, and the insane, and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings rather than defectives, and perhaps ultimately to worthless race types.” | Madison Grant | 1916 |
Boris Johnson | “As for motherhood – the fertility of the human race – we are getting to the point where you simply can’t discuss it, and we are thereby refusing to say anything sensible about the biggest single challenge facing the Earth” | Boris Johnson | 25 October 2007 |
Boris Johnson | “How the hell can we witter on about tackling global warming, and reducing consumption, when we are continuing to add so relentlessly to the number of consumers? The answer is politics, and political cowardice.” | Boris Johnson | 25 October 2007 |
Sierra Club | “Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.” | David Brower | |
Transhumanism | “unless [civilised societies] invent and enforce adequate measures for regulating human reproduction, for controlling the quantity of population, and at least preventing the deterioration of quality of racial stock, they are doomed to decay” | Julian Huxley | 1926 |
Transhumanism | “The GenRich—who account for ten percent of the American population—[will] all carry synthetic genes. All aspects of the economy, the media, the entertainment industry, and the knowledge industry are controlled by members of the GenRich class…
“Naturals [unaltered humans] work as low-paid service providers or as laborers. [Eventually] the GenRich class and the Natural class will become entirely separate species with no ability to crossbreed, and with as much romantic interest in each other as a current human would have for a chimpanzee. “Many think that it is inherently unfair for some people to have access to technologies that can provide advantages while others, less well-off, are forced to depend on chance alone, [but] American society adheres to the principle that personal liberty and personal fortune are the primary determinants of what individuals are allowed and able to do. “Indeed, in a society that values individual freedom above all else, it is hard to find any legitimate basis for restricting the use of repro[grammed]-genetics. I will argue [that] the use of reprogenetic technologies is inevitable. [W]hether we like it or not, the global marketplace will reign supreme.” | Lee Silver | 1998 |
Michael Yeadon | “It’s become absolutely clear to me, even when I talk to intelligent people, friends, acquaintances … and they can tell I’m telling them something important, but they get to the point [where I say] ‘your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death and that of your children,’ and they can’t begin to engage with it. And I think maybe 10% of them understand what I said, and 90% of those blank their understanding of it because it is too difficult. And my concern is, we are going to lose this, because people will not deal with the possibility that anyone is so evil…” | Michael Yeadon | April 2021 |
Michael Yeadon | “If you wanted to depopulate a significant portion of the world, and to do it in a way that wouldn’t require destruction of the environment with nuclear weapons, or poisoning everyone with anthrax or something, and you wanted plausible deniability, whilst you had a multi-year infectious disease crisis; I don’t think you could come up with a better plan than what seems to be in front of me. I can’t say that’s what they’re going to do, but I cannot think of a benign explanation for why they are doing it.” | Michael Yeadon | April 2021 |