Sisters High School biology teacher fired [Nazi/Planned Parenthood Powerpoint Made Public]

http://www.bendweekly.com/ ^ | Mar 23,2007 | Alisha Wilson

[Stingray]

"In fact, I would argue that the foundation the Holocaust was not put forth by an Austrian madman, but rather it was established in the Universities of Germany."

And what were those univesities teaching? ;)

You have to remember: in the early part of the last century, Darwin's ideas were still relatively new, and they burst on the scene with such force that academicians and politicians alike couldn't wait to wrap their heads around it.

It could be argued that Hitler was only pandering to the populace (although his views on evolution were also deeply held), but the German populace had embraced these ideas, too, because they fed on the German notion of personal and national superiority. Between-the-wars Germany had a severe superiority complex, and the writings of Darwins only reinforced this. It gave them a "scientific reason" to feel the way they did, not only about themselves, but about their Jewish neighbors.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

ping for later read

[Campion]

If Sisters is a Catholic School, the very fact ...

"Sisters" is evidently the name of a town in Oregon. Sisters High School is the public HS in that town.

[BlackElk]

Thanks.

[Stingray]

"The influences of Hegel, Haeckel and others were also quite central to Nazism."

The issue I'm attempting to address here doesn't have anything to do with Nazism per se (although Haeckel's infamous "theory of recapitulation" was later debunked, though it was still used as proof by evols on FR for evolution, and still exists in H.S. textbooks as proof for same. Haeckel was a contemporary of Darwin).

The question is whether the high school teacher was rightfully dismissed for making the connections he did regarding Hitler and Planned Parenthood to a high school biology class. I believe he was wrongfully dismissed because - as we'll see when I can post more quotes from Hitler, Sanger, Malthus, Darwin, and his cousin Francis Galton - Eugenics was at the heart of both Planned Parenthood and Hitler's "Final Solution." It was the natural outgrowth of Darwinian thought on natural selection (as already heavily cited above), and Malthus' theories on unsustainable population growth. Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton took the natural selection "ball" and ran with it from there, surmising that if animals could be improved through natural selection (and after all, we're all nothing more than evolved apes in differing stages of our evolutionary development), certainly the human race could be improved through "artificial selection", the way cattle are bred for desired inheiritable traits.

Here is a summation of eugenics from a treatise on same:

Eugenics is the study of methods to improve the human race by controlling reproduction. The word was coined in 1883 by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. Galton believed that the proper evolution of the human race was thwarted by philanthropic outreach to the poor: misguided charity encouraged the "unfit" to bear more children. This upset the mechanism of natural selection. Hence, the human race needed a kind of artificial selection, which he called "eugenics," from Greek for good birth.

Introduction to Eugenics
American Life League

More later.

[Stingray]

Hi guy! Took a long haitus from posting anything anywhere. I got tired of "fighting the good fight" as it were.

It wasn't so much the evol crowd and their oft-repeated specious arguments and "proofs" that burned me out as it was some of the idiocy I saw coming from the "God used 9/11 to judge us as a nation" crowd here on FR. That was really the last straw for me, and I logged back in the other night out of boredom.

Don't know how long I'll hang around this time, but it feels good to be back. :)

Thanks for the "howdy, neighbor!" :)

[Stingray]

BTW, the Introduction to Eugenics links (both of which existed on the FR server, as they were FR threads) don't work anymore. However, if you'd like me to FReepmail those threads to you, I can do that. I saved them. :)

[mitch5501]

"...both of which existed on the FR server, as they were FR threads) don't work anymore"

Yeah I went through every link on your post.Great threads and good memories as well.

I took a year or so off and when I came back a lot of folks were missing,yourself included.Any idea what happened to Askel5,logos or OWK?

I'll await mail on those links that don't work.8-)

I'll raise a glass to you hanging around a long time FRiend! You've been missed.

God bless!

[Deut28]

Those universities were teaching the ideas put forth by Hegel (the Prussians suppressed his teachings) and Nietzsche, among others. While there was considerable conflict between the two, but both put the human mind as the absolute source of knowledge.

And that is the bedrock for the kind of horrors of social/political darwinism that you've done such a good job explaining.

I truly appreciate you bringing to the forefront the numerous quotes from Darwin himself regarding the application of his biological position to social and moral situations. Many evolution apoplogists prefer to act as if those things were never said. And will argue to the end that what was said was never acted upon. Truly an interesting phenomenon to observe.

[qman]

No history class or politcal history.

[-YYZ-]

"He is right, what is different between Hitler killing off all the mentally ill and aborting babies that may have Down's syndrome? And that's without even challenging Darwin's theory."

All very interesting and worthy of discussion and debate, no doubt. But what does it have to do with evolution, and is it a suitable subject for a high school science class?