Posted on 01/03/2009 6:54:16 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode
“...men of physical and intellectual vigor.”
How many of those do you know? Right from the first sentence, we’re in deep trouble. Let’s see, we need to eliminate men in blue states, those who use the NYT as their Bible, 98% of university professors, vegans....well, heck, I can see where this is headed. Men on FR are the only ones worthy to live.
I forgot to mention that Henry Farifield Osborn was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
No doubt it is twisted stuff. But people believed it because it was backed by scientists. By the time the fourth edition of this book came out, more than 20,000 eugenic sterilizations were already performed in the US, and more than 50,000 in Germany. Sweden, I think, only stopped eugenic sterilizations far more recently. And, of course, many people still believe in the scientific validity of eugenics. Richard Dawkins, for example. And most of the Culture of Death crowd.
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