This topic is intended to question the ideas behind the concept eugenics and its potential use as fix for modern social problems.
(2020) The eugenics debate isn't over – but we should be wary of people who claim it can fix social problems
Andrew Sabisky, a UK government adviser, recently resigned over comments supporting eugenics. Around the same time, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins—best known for his book The Selfish Gene—provoked controversy when tweeting that while eugenics is morally deplorable, it "would work."
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-eugenics- ... eople.html
I am concerned with the topic of genetic modification (GMO) and synthetic biology which is essentially eugenics.
The multi-trillion dollar synthetic biology revolution reduces plants and animals to meaningless humps of matter that can be "done better" by a company and the idea behind it will logically eventually also affect people.
The idea behind eugenics - racial hygiene - that led to the Holocaust was supported by Universities around the world. It started with an idea that was not naturally defensible and that was thought to require trickery and deceit. It resulted in demand for people with the capabilities of Nazis.
The famous German Holocaust scholar Ernst Klee has described the situation as follows:
20 years before the Nazi party was founded German psychiatry started with the organized murder of psychiatric patients through starvation diets and they continued until 1949. In America, psychiatry started with mass sterilization programs and similar programs have also taken place in several European countries. The Holocaust began with the murder of more than 300,000 psychiatric patients.Ernst Klee wrote:"The Nazis didn't need psychiatry, it was the other way around, psychiatry needed the Nazis."
Critical American psychiatrist Dr. Peter R. Breggin has researched it for years and says the following about it:
The Nazis planned during their demise that they would come back to power through an economic empire to put their fascist plans (eugenics) into practice: a 4th empire through the power of big business.Dr. Peter R. Breggin wrote:Yet, while the Allied victory had ended the deaths in the concentration camps, the psychiatrists, convinced of their own goodness, had continued their macabre murder task after the war ended. After all, they argued, "euthanasia" was not Hitler's war policy, but a medical policy of organized psychiatry.
The patients were killed for their own good as well as that of the community.
Daily Mail published a classified intelligence report in 2009 showing the extent of the plans.
Revealed: the secret report showing how the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich ... in the EU
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... h--EU.htmlRed House Report wrote:The Red House Report is a bridge from a sunny present to a dark past. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief, once said: 'In 50 years' time nobody will think of nation states.'
For now, the nation state endures. But these three typewritten pages are a reminder that today's drive towards a European federal state is inexorably tangled up with the plans of the SS and German industrialists for a Fourth Reich - an economic rather than military imperium.
The industrialists included representatives of Volkswagen, Krupp and Messerschmitt. Officials from the Navy and Ministry of Armaments were also at the meeting and, with incredible foresight, they decided together that the Fourth German Reich, unlike its predecessor, would be an economic rather than a military empire - but not just German.
Nazi Germany exported massive amounts of capital through neutral countries. German businesses set up a network of front companies abroad. The German economy soon recovered after 1945.
The Third Reich was defeated militarily, but powerful Nazi-era bankers, industrialists and civil servants, reborn as democrats, soon prospered in the new West Germany. There they worked for a new cause: European economic and political integration.
In 2014, New York Times journalist Eric Lichtblau published The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men, which showed that more than 10,000 high-ranking Nazis emigrated to the United States after World War II. Their war crimes were quickly forgotten, and some received help and protection from the US government.
(2020) Is America Starting Down the Path of Nazi Germany?
Leaked documents on WikiLeaks.org show that the US government plans to punish countries that oppose GMOs with "retaliation and pain", which is essentially enforcing eugenics.Wayne Allyn Root, Townhall.com wrote:I cannot express how truly sad writing this op-ed has made me. But I'm a patriotic American. And I'm an American Jew. I have studied the beginnings of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. And I can clearly see parallels with what is happening in America today.
Wayne Allyn Root - bestselling author and nationally syndicated talk show host on USA Radio Network
https://townhall.com/columnists/wayneal ... y-n2570979
Some references:
(2020) Eugenics is trending. That’s a problem.
Any attempt to slow population growth must focus on reproductive justice.
Scientist Richard Dawkins sparked controversy when he tweeted that, aside from the moral issues, eugenics `would work` in practice. While that comment is shocking, Dawkins is not alone in accepting the premise of eugenic science and population control theory. Last year, a group of 11,000 scientists signed a statement urging population control to slow human exploitation of Earth's fragile resources. Now that climate change is finally a topic of urgent debate, some have argued that limiting population growth, if not eugenics, could be part of saving the planet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/ ... s-problem/
(2020) US forced sterilization policies targeted minorities and people with disabilities - and continues into the 21st century
In the years between 1997 and 2010, forced sterilizations were performed on approximately 1,400 women in California prisons. These surgeries were based on the same rationale of unwanted genes that was evident in North Carolina in 1964.
https://theconversation.com/forced-ster ... ury-143144
(2021) Francis Galton was a pioneer of scientific advancement in many areas, but also founded the racist pseudoscience eugenics
A popular pseudoscience left its mark on American culture a century ago in everything from massive reductions in US immigration quotas, to thousands of 'fitter family' matches at county fairs, to growing acceptance of contraception by those who use it. thought. could limit the fertility of "unwanted".
https://theconversation.com/francis-gal ... ics-144465
A recent blog by the well-known activist, psychotherapist and philosopher Bonnie Burstow, PhD on MadInAmerica.com:
(2019) Psychiatric Eugenics Then and Now — You Betcha It’s Still Happening!
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana)
We are facing an upsurge in twenty-first century psychiatric eugenics. With the historic and current eugenics record only too clear, as everyday members of society, is it not time that individually and collectively, we stopped “letting psychiatry off the hook”—before we have still more to regret?
https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/07/ps ... n-and-now/
Questions:
1) do you believe that it is a valid idea for humans to attempt to top-down control the evolution of the human specie?
2) do you believe that eugenics can be a 'fix' for social problems? If so/not, can you provide an example/argumentative foundation?