tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740067042613887004.post7755305417535852212..comments2024-03-24T11:47:12.059+01:00Comments on Those Who Can See: Being a Progressive, Yesterday: EugenicsM.G.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06817230141673953233noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740067042613887004.post-29240851607258547422012-05-03T02:31:11.464+02:002012-05-03T02:31:11.464+02:00Socialists ruin everything.Socialists ruin everything.B322https://www.blogger.com/profile/18257802768718375656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740067042613887004.post-31096135378179098112012-05-01T11:22:29.173+02:002012-05-01T11:22:29.173+02:00Thanks for the link B.B. The NS did taint the mov...Thanks for the link B.B. The NS did taint the movement in the 1930s, I remember reading in Broberg's book that many Scandinavian eugenicists thought Hitler was deranged, although quite a few were members of the German Race Hygiene Society.<br /><br />Because that association (eugenics = Nazi Germany) did eventually become gospel, it's tempting to wonder what would have happened had the German atrocities never come to pass. Would the rest of the West have retained this interest in aggressively 'cleansing' the racial stock? Would all these sterilization programs have continued, would this be considered utterly mainstream today instead of a perverse pseudo-science?M.G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06817230141673953233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740067042613887004.post-54260387073770684842012-04-29T23:48:59.008+02:002012-04-29T23:48:59.008+02:00While eugenics wasn't necessarily associated w...While eugenics wasn't necessarily associated with the holocaust specifically until significantly later, the association of eugenics with Nazi Germany in general did taint the field during the era. William Shockley in an <a href="http://youtu.be/R_2WaVXZC7U?t=3m12s" rel="nofollow">interview with William Buckley</a> mentioned that he did a study on the acquisitions of texts on eugenics by the Stanford University Library and apparently they basically stopped ordering them after Hitler came to power.<br /><br />B.B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com