Jun 30, 2009

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The Fall of Man:
Richard Lynn’s Dysgenics

Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populationsby Richard LynnWestport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996When it comes to population, quality matters more than quantity.  While educated Westerners never tire of sprinkling their conversations with the word “overpopulation,” voicing concern about population worth is taboo.  Put it this way: you have to spend the rest of...

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Jun 16, 2009

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America’s Racialist Moment, Part II:
The Scientific Racialists

Scientific RacialismRadical Racialism tended to be Southern, Protestant Christian, and rural. It had grown seamlessly out of the pro-slavery arguments before the war. The second movement in American racialism arising in the 1890s, though in practice in substantial agreement with the former, had very different philosophical underpinnings. This is the ideology generally called...

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May 10, 2009

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The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell

The eleventh edition of The Encyclopedia Britannica defines eugenics as “the organic betterment of the race through wise application of the laws of heredity.” Yet most people draw a blank when they hear the word, or else it conjures up images of swastikas and jack‑booted Nazis. Contrary to this warped image, eugenics has had a long history, extending back to ancient Rome and...

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May 10, 2009

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Defaming America’s Past: Henry Ford and the Eugenics Movement

From The Occidental Observer, April 11, 2009One result of the triumph of the culture of critique is that Americans must endure constant defamations against the pre-1965 culture of America. A good example is the defamation of Henry Ford — an icon when I was growing up but now known mainly as an anti-Semite from America’s dark past. Henry FordA recent rather egregious...

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May 7, 2009

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A Weak Case

War Against the Weak:Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master RaceEdwin BlackNew York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003Black’s book is an ill-informed and intemperate attack on eugenics. It follows in the tradition of two previous attacks, the first by Kenneth Ludmerer (Genetics and American Society, 1972), and the second by Daniel Kevles (In the Name of...

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