From Good Shit:
Award-winning author and investigative journalist Edwin Black will deliver a multimedia presentation entitled, “Eugenics– From Virginia toAuschwitz” on August 28 [has already taken place] at the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg VA. Virginians from across the state will be driving to the campus to hear Black speak. Among the groups will be groups of Native Americans victimized by state eugenics.
Black’s many books have included IBM and the Holocaust, The Farhud, and War Against the Weak. The latter of these recounts the growth of the pseudo-science known as eugenics that was funded by corporate America and which sought to eliminate so-called ‘unfit’ people such as African-Americans, Native Americans, and the poor, through sterilization abetted by local and state governments.
Black follows the connections between American eugenicists and their funders and supporters, such as Henry Ford and the Carnegie Institution, to Adolf Hitler and the logical terminus of their inhuman philosophy in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.(Continued)
4 comments:
Pastorius,
In addition to being used to justify horrible evil eugenics is one of the worst pseudosciences out there. Much like racism, that goes hand and hand with eugenics, it has no basis in reality. I would love to live to see the day when there's no one alive who still believes it. Its one of those ideas that's needs to be put in humanity's trash can.
And don't forget Margaret Sanger, who consulted with Ernst Rudin, one of Hitler's advisers on the "hygiene" of extermination. She founded the Birth Control League in the 1930's, using black ministers in the South (so "word wouldn't get out" that they were trying to exterminate the blacks) to sing the praises of birth control.
Her organization morphed into Planned Parenthood, today the largest abortion provider in the world, with a disproportionate number of clinics in poor and minority areas.
I'm guessing Margaret Sanger plays a big part in this book.
Damien,
You're right. The line of demarcation between virulent racism and the "science" of Eugenics is negligible.
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