Socialists made eugenics fashionable
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Socialists made eugenics fashionable
In the United States socialist writer Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and the mother of the abortion movement, called for a radical eugenics approach as early as the first years of the 20th century. She wrote of the need for “a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring. It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization.”The key of civilization. Unlocking the doors of a hell once unimaginable but now, after the Holocaust, the Ukrainian genocide, Pol Pot and Mao’s mass slaughter, entirely within the grasp of contemporary sensibilities. History is often clouded by fashion and the whims of the victorious. Because some of the most pernicious intellectual criminals of the past century wore red they have escaped condemnation. It is time for the clouds to clear and the fashions to change.
Canada has an exhibit on the history of eugenics which shows the inception came left-wing intellectuals and scientists. Recognizing the link between eugenics and abortion (with Sanger) is one of the most helpful things to learn. The philosophy that gave birth to mass sterilization in California of down-syndrome people and now mass extermination of specific races (black) by the likes of Planned Parenthood also embraces and promotes use of birth control for selectively breeding out class, race, and physical ailment.
Fundamentally this philosophy seeks to make man in its own image (or at least what it perceives as the ideal humanity.) It tears away from God His providence (economic) and His lordship over creation and sin (deformity, disability). Of course, this is one of the fundamental tenants of Darwinian evolution. Isn’t it ironic how many embrace a philosophy tied to social theory and atheism in one aspect (procreation) and renounce the same philosophy when taken to its logical end (eugenics, abortion.)
HT: Cranach, the blog of Veith
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