Political Eugenics

What did "race" mean in the good ol' days?

2006-05-26T13:40:00.001-07:00

Race never was exclusive to ethnic races, but referred to the fit and unfit of any race. Most sterilizations we done on Whites: Again, from Building a Better Race:Popenoe and Gosney defended the German law through the 1930s. In both private correspondence and publications, Popenoe emphasized that the law was “not [a] hasty improvisation of the Nazi regime” but the product of years of

The "girl" problem, the eugenics solution

2006-05-25T17:21:00.000-07:00

More from Building a Better Race:They received such an opportunity in 1916, when the state embarked on a statewide survey of “mental deviation.” The committee noted that “a nation-wide awakening to the menace of the feeble-minded is one of the most noteworthy movements of public thought, ” and the extent of the problem in the state needed to be determined. Surveyors noted that often the worst

Building a Better Race

2006-05-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

So it turns out F.W. Hatch practiced eugenics. How long before the tide turns again to "sexually suspect" women? There is a new "moral panic" brewing and we read more and more about women sexual predators.From: Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby BoomBook by Wendy Kline; University of California Press, 2001 Dr. F. W Hatch, the general

Paragraph 175

2006-05-20T12:37:00.000-07:00

Sundance Film Festival, 2000 - Documentary Jury Prize for Directing Berlin Film Festival, 2000 - FIPRESCI Award (Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique) for Best Film (Panorama Section); Teddy Award for Best Documentary By the 1920’s, Berlin had become known as a homosexual eden, where gay men and lesbians lived relatively open lives amidst an exciting subculture of artists and

Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection

2006-05-20T12:17:00.000-07:00

Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection- Edwin BlackSan Francisco ChronicleSunday, November 9, 2003 Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race. But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in

2006-05-12T07:50:00.000-07:00

Wider Use of DNA Lists Is Urged in Fighting CrimeNY Times By NICHOLAS WADEPublished: May 12, 2006A team of Harvard scientists is proposing that DNA databases contain enough information to identify many criminals whose DNA has not been catalogued through their kinship to people already listed. They say this could be done by a method developed to identify victims of the World Trade Center attacks

The Most Critical Option: Sex Offenses and Castration in San Diego, 1938-1975

2006-05-08T09:05:00.000-07:00

The Most Critical Option: Sex Offenses and Castration in San Diego, 1938-1975 by Mark Linsky Judge Lawrence Neil Turrentine was the sort of man who made a lasting impression on both those who knew him socially and those who appeared before him in the courtroom. By 1938 Judge Turrentine had already logged some eight years on the San Diego County Superior Court bench, where, to his admirers, the

YOUgenics (eugenics :)

2005-10-05T21:34:00.000-07:00

Are you or have your ever been...(1)Feeble-minded; (2) insane (including the nervous and psychopathic); (3) criminalistic (including the delinquent and wayward); (4) epileptic; (5) inebriate (including drug habitues); (6) diseased (including turberculous, the syphilitic, the leporous, and others with chronic infectious segregated diseases); (7) blind (including those with greatly impaired vision)

1909 California Eugenics Bill (click image to enlarge)

2005-10-03T19:07:00.000-07:00

Lombardo said California's asexualization statute passed unanimously in the state Assembly, drew only one dissenting vote in the state Senate and was signed into law by Gov. James M. Gillett in 1909.F.W. Price introduced the bill in the Senate. He chaired the Committee on Hospitals and Asylums and offered many bills that year, most relating to the hospitals and asylums.(click to enlarge)

Is Asexualization Ever Justifiable?

2005-09-30T18:21:00.000-07:00

Is Asexualization Ever Justifiable In The Case Of Imbecile Children READ AT VINELAND MEETING, 1905 S.D. RISLEY, M.D. PHILADELPHIA. In no direction possibly has greater advance been made during the past century on medico-sociologic lines than in our knowledge of the defective classses of the population; this knowledge, however, has

Eugenics in 1909 California (click image to enlarge)

2005-09-30T15:26:00.000-07:00

The first California sterilization (asexualization) law in 1909. The note on the right of the image is "Asexualization of inmates of state institutions."The note in the second image is "State prisoners." (Click to enlarge.) How did this come about? We know many eugenicists wanted to pass such laws, but how did they get the public to agree? I will try to trace the evolution and see how it

Bolder

2005-09-30T15:25:00.000-07:00

Media Matters exposes Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down"Addressing a caller's suggestion that the "lost revenue from the people who have been aborted in the last 30 years" would be enough to preserve Social Security's solvency, radio host and former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett dismissed such "far-reaching,

An Act for the prevention of idiocy

2005-09-30T15:23:00.000-07:00

I return herewith, without my approval Senate Bill No. 35, entitled "An Act for the prevention of idiocy."This bill has what may be called with propriety an attractive title. If idiocy could be prevented by an act of assembly, we may be quite sure that such an act would have long been passed and approved in this state, and that such laws would have been enacted in all civilized countries. The

Eugenics and Asexualization

2005-09-30T15:22:00.000-07:00

Eugenical Sterilization: A Reorientation of the ProblemBook by American Neurological Association; Macmillan Co., 1936 California. Laws were passed on June 25, 1909 and on July 27, 1917. The law provides for compulsory asexualization upon discharge of any inmate of a state hospital for the insane or a state home for the feebleminded if afflicted with mental disease which may have been inherited

An excellent, short intro to Eugenics

2005-09-28T21:24:00.000-07:00

Menace of Undesirables:The Eugenics Movement During the Progressive EraBy Ted L. DeCorte, Jr.University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1978

Eugenics' Love of Hitler

2005-09-28T15:48:00.000-07:00

Society in Transition: Problems of a Changing AgeBook by Harry Elmer Barnes; Prentice-Hall, 1939The German law of 1933 has attracted the most attention. While it is officially maintained that the Nazi sterilization operations are designed wholly for eugenic purposes, it has been widely charged that racial and social prejudice have played an important role in the selection of those to be

Eugenics Today

2005-09-23T13:20:00.000-07:00

Sunday, July 17, 2005 The abortion debate that wasn'tUnder the radar, pregnancies increasingly are being terminated when fetuses are prenatally diagnosed with disabilities By GEORGE NEUMAYRGUEST COLUMNIST In some cases, the aborted children aren't disabled at all but are mere carriers of a disease or stand a chance of getting one later in life. Prenatal screening has made it possible to abort

Better to Have Never Been Born?

2005-09-23T12:41:00.000-07:00

Wrongful Life Litigation The more gut-wrenching form of wrongful life litigation occurs when the parents in question do want a child. They just don't want this child... The wish implicit in the lawsuit... is that the baby in question had never been born. Sherry F. Colb

Are We A Dying Race?

2005-09-23T12:39:00.000-07:00

What will be the condition of civilized nations four or five centuries hence, when society is entirely composed of degenerates, and when the whole lump of humanity is permeated with the leaven of physical, mental, and moral perversion? J.H. Kellogg, 1897

As promised, a eugenics rant from the left

2005-09-23T12:24:00.000-07:00

Herland "We have bred a race of psychic hybrids," said early 20th century feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "and the moral qualities of hybrids are well known." Whatever does she mean? "Marry an Anglo-Saxon to an African or Oriental," she writes elsewhere, "and their child has a dual nature." This, we are led to understand, would be a bad thing. While contemporaries like

Genes Will Tell [on you]

2005-09-20T12:32:00.000-07:00

Genes Will Tellby Beth HawkinsSEN. RANDY KELLY (DFL-St. Paul) likes to engage in the kind of debate that, in his parlance, makes "people think outside the box." Which is exactly where he was reportedly going when he recently invited a Plymouth geneticist to address a state Senate panel about crime prevention. The scientist, Genovus Inc. Chairman John Offerman, was happy to go because he's anxious

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2005-09-20T11:39:00.000-07:00

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Eugenics and who?

2005-09-20T10:24:00.000-07:00

An unabashed distrust, even contempt, for democracy characterized a part of eugenic thinking in both Britain and America... The eugenics movement enabled middle- and upper-middle-class British and Americans to carve out a locus of power for themselves between the captains of industry on one side and low-income groups -- both native and foreign-born-- on the other. Socialist, progressive, liberal,

Then? Now? What does Statistics have to do with eugenics?

2005-09-16T20:35:00.000-07:00

Ah, found something to confirm the use of statistics as suggested in "Tomorrow's Children" below. Today, rather than "biometrics," we us "Actuarial methods—i.e. the use of statistical rather than clinical methods on large datasets of criminal offending rates to determine different levels of offending associated with one or more group traits, in order to (1) predict past, present or future

Eugenics and Population

2005-09-16T20:25:00.000-07:00

From: Population Problems in the United States and Canada: An Outgrowth of Papers Presented at the Eighty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, December, 1924 Book by Louis I. Dublin; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926 CHAPTER XVII EFFECT OF THE HEALTH MOVEMENT ON FUTURE POPULATION By SAMUEL J. HOLMES PROFESSOR OF ZOÖLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE