Economics and Eugenics

Unfortunately, I have plenty of time to write considering I have been given the day off of work. It seems the the economy is improving so well [for billionaires] that my small company saw fit to give me the day off. You see, they aren't billion dollar bankers stealing tax dollars to maintain their misstresses after they made horrific financial errors. I mean, it's not like those billions in our tax dollars should go to the folk those assholes swindled to keep them in their homes. Fuck them! They Ain't Rich! I shall be looking for a part time job, now. Thank goodness the economy is improving...for billionaires who are given billions in our tax dollars.

So, here are some interesting bits from "War Against the Weak," by Edwin Black.

"Sanger's book, Pivot of Civilization, included an introduction by famous British novelist and eugenicist H. G. Wells, who said, "We want fewer and better children...and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.""[pg. 130 "War Against the Weak"]

Margaret Sanger, for those of you who don't know, helped found Planned Parenthood. I agree with her as far as women having reproductive rights, but she was also a eugenicist, a believer in the master race. And she was IRISH! Irish aren't part of the master race! Irish and Scots I've heard referred to as the Niggers of Europe. C'MON! Margaret was still a eugenicist even after WWII, when most folk got to see what eugenics was really all about in Nazi Germany. Eugenicists here kept on talking euthenasia, but dismissing it.

H. G. Wells. George Orwell and H. G. Wells were friends for a while, until George wrote a criticism about him living in a fantasy world of visioning a utopia without seeing reality. Orwell's Utopia was what he saw in Barcelona, Spain when he arrived where everyone got along and worked together, only later to be betrayed by the Stalinist communists which eventually led to the long running Franco fascist government of Spain. H. G.'s was more along a eugenicist line, and he became a rather unhealthy great big fat fuck, didn't he?

I have other quotes, but I won't get into them right now.

What I find most interesting is that the alleged science behind the eugenics (Greek for "Well-Bred") movement was all but non-existent. Folk like Margaret Sanger, H. G. Wells, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Walter A. Plecker, musician John Powell, and so many others based their belief on was just that...a belief. There was literally little to no scientific foundation. The science seemed to be all pulled out of their racist, classist, sexist assholes. All of these folks despised charitable organizations (what the fuck is Planned Parenthood, if not a charitable organization?) because they believed that the lesser folk (aka, white trash, blacks, indians, mexicans, italians, eastern europeans, etc.) should be allowed to starve to death when it came to their time. No, we shouldn't help one another, but euthenize them through complicity. Shit, if America had it in it (and it was heading that way), there would have been gas chambers here before Adolf got them going in Europe.

"Feebleminded." What the hell is feebleminded? There is, of course, no clear definition of "feebleminded," but this helped the Eugenics movement sterilize many of the lower classes. You see, it wasn't really about the "master race," because most of the folk that believe/d that shit were a mighty fucked up and rather useless bunch of scum, except maybe Margaret Sanger who did at least struggle for women's reproductive rights. The eugenics movement made sure that you could be sterilized for being diagnosed as "feebleminded." There was, however, absolutely no clear definition of feebleminded, just like there is NO EVIDENCE that whites, let alone any other race, is the master race. But, Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Carrie Buck v. Bell case decided that Carrie Buck was feebleminded and worthy of sterilization.

Carrie did well in school, which makes one question the allegations of "feeblemindedness," but since when does actual evidence count in a U.S. court room? Carrie's mother was institutionalized by a copper in Virginia. His family generously took Carrie in because they needed some cheap slave labor, she was about 8 at the time. At around 18, Carrie was raped and got pregnant, and the copper had her institutionalized. The eugenicists wanted a test case to legalize all the illegal sterilizations they were performing already, and managed to get it all they way to the U.S. Supreme Court. They had Carrie, her mother, and her two month old daughter diagnosed as feebleminded. Not that they were, the eugenicists coerced and fabricated the diagnoses, but that is how the U.S. legal system works. Not only did Carrie do well in school, but her daughter, also taken in by the alleged generous copper, also did well in school, but died at 8 from a brief illness.

The eugenicists seem more interested in killing folk before they are born than they do in creating healthy human beings living in healthy environments.

You all have to read this book.

Even so, how much will all this shit matter in an economic collapse?