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Like you're doing here. You make a claim about eugenics and leftists, now you want to talk about progressives and socialists, apparently unaware of the barest history of eugenics. Your argument is at the level of a bubble-gum wrapper.
While eugenic principles have been practiced as far back in world history as ancient Greece, the modern history of eugenics began in the early 20th century when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom and spread to many countries including the United States, Canada and most European countries. In this period, eugenic ideas were espoused across the political spectrum.
Consequently, many countries adopted eugenic policies with the intent to improve the quality of their populations' genetic stock.
Eugenics became an academic discipline at many colleges and universities and received funding from many sources. Organizations were formed to win public support and sway opinion towards responsible eugenic values in parenthood, including the British Eugenics Education Society of 1907 and the American Eugenics Society of 1921. Both sought support from leading clergymen and modified their message to meet religious ideals. In 1909 the Anglican clergymen William Inge and James Peile both wrote for the British Eugenics Education Society. Inge was an invited speaker at the 1921 International Eugenics Conference, which was also endorsed by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York Patrick Joseph Hayes.
As a social movement, eugenics reached its greatest popularity in the early decades of the 20th century, when it was practiced around the world and promoted by governments, institutions, and influential individuals.
originally posted by: TheTory
a reply to: Blarneystoner
Collective Liberty or Individual Liberty?
You keep implying that I'm stupid... why don't you just come out and say it? Or are you actually trying to convince yourself?
Liberty. Is there a reason why you should split the two?
You called me a stupid and a buffoon if you can remember, but now I have to watch as your goal posts get as wide as the horizon.
originally posted by: enlightenedservant
a reply to: Gryphon66
They know.
I was born and raised in the South. Most people who have roots here can tell you exactly who in their family tree was a sharecropper and who was a slave owner. They can tell you the number of slaves & the plantations they were on. They can tell you which family members fought in the confederacy, which ones fought in the Union, and which properties were destroyed during the Civil War. And the ones who are comfortable w/me have even told me which family members were in the KKK and similar groups. And they know that those family members were Democrats at the time, with some even knowing which political offices those family members held.
Make no mistake, the ones who know their family trees here know all of the details and are proud of them. I think that's why the whole premise of this thread pisses me off so much. They've been waving that flag for 150+ years, but they come on here & pretend not to know simple crap like what party its creators were from? Some of the people here are old enough to have been voters when the parties were changing positions, yet they still feign ignorance.
I once worked w/a guy whose family tree owned slaves in the same county as some of my enslaved ancestors. It was awkward for a few seconds when we found out, then we laughed and continued our conversation lol. I knew he wasn't like that and he knew I wasn't out for revenge or anything like that, so it simply didn't matter. But it's hard to have a "lol well then, it's good that times have changed, huh?" conversation when they feign ignorance like in this thread.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: Gryphon66
sick of nazi style persecution tearing our sociery apart.
Nazi style persecution? Are you going to be honest and admit that was hyperbole or are you going to start listing times were liberals have gassed or forced the people they don't like into work camps just because they didn't like them?
Open pesecution of jews is how it started in nazi germany. Or more specifically an ideology with a core tenet being the open persecution of jews. Right now thats the stage of liberals openly persecuting whites.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: PublicOpinion
If youve been missing the alnost daily threads of new stories of open persecution of whites the past year, since i tuned back in, well you need tobtake your blinders off. Start by reading the rest of my post mkaythx.
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Most of the liberals I know are white. Please explain to me how they are persecuting themselves. Most of them have good, well paying jobs and no arbitrary arrests or traffic stops on their records.
no one was required to leave. But the pressure for white individuals to leave campus, to demonstrate that they were good allies to people of color, was very real. And many, students, faculty and staff alike, were confused by the structure of the day. How could they not be confused?