Tuesday, April 20. 2010Incarceration and forced sterilization in ChinaTrackbacks
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So, these are also the same enlightened people, we are to assume, who have radically skewed China's sex ratio through abandonment and selective abortion of girls? The same people who, even when they are pro-life for Chinese, are "satisfied" because they have two sons, not just two children?
The eugenics movement in the United States certainly didn't lead to the holocaust in Germany; that's absurd. The eugenics movement existed at the time both in Europe and the U.S., and had major proponents in both places. The way you have stated this suggest that the eugenics movement originated in the U.S. (not true) and that its presence in the U.S. was somehow causally related to what happened in Germany. Not true, not true.
Follow the link and read Edwin Blacks War Against the Weak. He did extensive research and found a direct link from the U.S. eugenics movement and Mengele and Nazi Germany. From his website:
"Ultimately, 60,000 Americans were coercively sterilized legally and extra-legally. Many never discovered the truth until decades later. Those who actively supported eugenics include America's most progressive figures: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger and Oliver Wendell Holmes. American eugenic crusades proliferated into a worldwide campaign, and in the 1920s came to the attention of Adolf Hitler. Under the Nazis, American eugenic principles were applied without restraint, careening out of control into the Reich's infamous genocide. During the pre-War years, American eugenicists openly supported Germany's program. The Rockefeller Foundation financed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the work of its central racial scientists. Once WWII began, Nazi eugenics turned from mass sterilization and euthanasia to genocidal murder. One of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute doctors in the program financed by the Rockefeller Foundation was Josef Mengele who continued his research in Auschwitz, making daily eugenic reports on twins. After the world recoiled from Nazi atrocities, the American eugenics movement its institutions and leading scientists renamed and regrouped under the banner of an enlightened science called human genetics."
Excellent piece. I will be reblogging it on my two sites. In addition, your post provides excellent insight into this subject matter and forces us as a world to reflect on our beliefs as well.
Why we as a people allow and support this type of behaviour is well beyond me. Excellent post
The "incovenient truth" IS that humans are overpopulating the world, and it affects everything: from personal quality of life to global warming.
Does that mean we should adopt China's policy of forced sterilization and selective abortion? Of course not. For some reason, we have a tendency to jump to extremes. But what if having only one or two children was encouraged through incentives such as tax deductions ONLY for the first two children. After that, if you choose to have more children, you need to be sure you can afford to support them. Why should families who choose to have small families have to pick up the tax burden for those who have six or eight children which they then often turn to the government to help support? Also, free birth control. And maybe free vasectomies for those men who choose that option. If you are religiously opposed to these things, don't do it. But don't make all of society pay or your personal beliefs. |
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