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What is Eugenics? The eugenics movement is an attempt to remove the lower level genetics from the human species while leaving the higher quality genetics. The obvious problem with eugenics is who determines what is low quality and what is high quality? A great deal of what is cited these days as population control is absolutely eugenics. The eugenics movement had its modern-day beginnings with in the united states, and was cultivated in California, decades before the infamous Adolf Hitler came to power. One of the most prominent eugenicists in the united states was Charles Benedict Davenport, a Harvard Ph.D, who went on to found the international Federation of Eugenics organizations in 1925. A wide variety of other prominent people supported the movement including Alexander Graham Bell, Margaret Sanger (one of the founders of Planned Parenthood), Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes and John Harvey Kellogg. These well-known people gave huge credibility to the movement. With extensive financing via corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman Railroad Fortune. They were all in league with some of america's most reputable scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Those academicians espoused race theory and race science, after which faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims. After WW2 and the Holocaust, the american eugenics movement was widely condemned by the general public. Nazism made the subject synonymous with racism and genocide. However sterilization programs endured in many states and between 1927 and the 1970s, there were more than 60,000 compulsory sterilizations performed in 33 states in the united states. Since Nazi Germany eugenics is alive and well within the united states via organizations such as Planned Parenthood. And as scientists work towards cloning human beings and altering the DNA. The ultimate goal of eugenics, according to many people, is to create a more dumbed down subservient working class subjected to the whims of their elite and ruling masters. |
