Elitism is "The Bomb"
I wasn’t surprised to discover the person one might describe as the “father of eugenics in America” was a professor out of the University of Chicago by the name of Charles Davenport. From my viewpoint in a small town in Georgia, Chicago appears to be a hot bed for bad liberal ideas and crooked politicians. But who am I but a feebleminded, uneducated redneck on which Davenport and a guy named Laughlin might have at the time collected a pedigree? They played a role in making eugenic sterilization a legally sanctioned way to fight poverty and crime in America and believed themselves capable of identifying the undesirables. Hitler’s ‘Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring’ was modeled after a sterilization law written by Laughlin.
Recently Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained,
that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me the REAL problem with eugenics was not so much that it was promoted to prevent some threat to racial purity, but that the folks espousing it sought to correct what they saw was wrong with the world by attempting to affect birthrates. They sought to control reproduction through government policies. Or, to put it simply, they wanted to make sure that certain people were not allowed to reproduce through GOVERNMENT CONTROL. That has been called lots of different things, but I can assure you, one of them is not “freedom”. So if today the scientist has decided that the threat is not to racial purity, but rather to the entire population because we have overpopulated the Earth, all of our resources are dwindling and we are using too much energy, then the devil is in the details, no?
It seems that today’s elite scientist’s thinking goes like this:
1) Nature created itself