Paul A. Lombardo

This should be labeled the Stephen Miller effect

and political posturing to restrict immigration of people who will upset the white demographic majority, or cut the social safety net--health care, education, housing-- for anyone considered (as they said in the 1920s) "socially inadequate."

But the inability for people to agree about what new technology may constitute "eugenics" today should not obscure the clear parallels between what happened under the people who were happy to call themselves eugenists 100 years ago ...

She brought it up for the same reason that the Musker and his overlord did. Ill heath, bad economy, high taxes, etc. are all blamed on immigration, people they want to deport now, or any people not of "racehorse" quality--to their way of thinking the source of poverty, disease, and crime.

Just so

Hall's comments were quoted verbatim in an openly white supremacist volume of the era: The Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard. This book was parodied by Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. Stoddard and his ilk wrote the script you are hearing repeated today.

There is a unity of message coming out of this administration. It echoes, sometimes verbatim, the messages of early 20th Century eugenics. Here is an example from a 1919 article by Prescott Hall, a leader of the immigration restriction movement, describing immigrants as a public health threat.

When giving my campus tour of Cal, I like to introduce people to the Neo-Assyrian styled Valley Life Sciences building that was once the largest academic building in the world. And then I let the know this was the home of the University of California Dept. of Eugenics, the world's leading center.

To simplify: We don't call historical geocentrism (earth at the center of the universe) pseudoscience. That's just where science was at the time. People who believe in geocentrism *now* however are pushing pseudoscience.

Italy and Germany, for those who may have forgotten, were run by Mussolini and Hitler, who both had strong ideas about immigration, race, and the role of women.

perhaps the Musker is just reading old newspapers, say from 1934?

and for a more recent analysis of how immigration restriction was a goal of the "race suicide" enthusiasts, see:

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

For a detailed explanation of the origins of the "race suicide" rhetoric and its connection to US eugenics, see:

or 1914, or 1930 Bigots gonna bigot

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA double helix, dies at 97 Often celebrated as a pioneer of genetics alongside Francis Crick, racist and sexist remarks tarnished his reputation in later years.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Republicans need to stop talking about bathrooms and junior high volleyball teams and start focusing on issues people actually care about

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