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September 29, 2022

States and the federal government should mandate balanced teaching of history and the social sciences in both public schools and universities that accept taxpayer support (state or federal). That’s because of what is being taught to American youth about socialism and communism is as dangerous to our Republic as the pseudo-science of eugenics and racialist philosophies of the past, seeping into the national consciousness of the western world leading up to World War II and the genocide at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators.

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After watching Ken Burns’ three-part series on the U.S. and the Holocaust,   which dramatized how the Roosevelt administration was blind to the plight of European Jews seeking asylum from Nazi persecution, one thing stood out – that the underlying cause of Nazism was not just historical anti-Semitism in Germany and other Christian countries, but the various philosophies and junk sciences coming out of the Enlightenment, one of which was eugenics.

Eugenics preached that some ethnic groups and races were superior to others – and those on the top were mainly Aryan northern Europeans.  In the course of the century that followed, it gave a scientific rationale for racism and government enforcement of racist policies the progressive-era movement to “improve” the genetic makeup of the population

In an interview in the documentary, which ran on PBS the week of Sept. 18, one historian said eugenics believers felt there were mental and physical differences among even white ethnics “like different breeds of dogs.”

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Science has disproven this, (only after the murder of some 10 million “subhumans” by the Nazis in the name of eugenics) but it was “settled science” to use Dr. Fauci’s words in the years leading up to Hitler’s takeover in Germany in 1933.  Genetic research in recent years has proven that despite skin color and facial differences, all humans are biologically the same.   

As such, Jews were considered an inferior race, as were Romani (gypsies), while southern and eastern Christian Europeans were not as advanced as northern ones (Aryans).  Hitler believed blacks were not even human and griped about their presence on the U. S. 1936 Olympic team.

Put in the hands of a totalitarian state that preached it was the “Master Race” in order to boost population morale and find scapegoats for their post World War I doldrums, eugenics had lethal consequences. 

Initially, Jews lost their rights in Nazi Germany, in an attempt to drive them out (and there was really no nation that would accept them). And by 1945, six million had been murdered in the Holocaust.

But the eugenics genie also had negative consequences in the democracies, which included the U.S.

Eugenics led 30 states in the 1920s and ‘30s to enact “sterilization” laws,  that allowed prisons to sterilize prisoners and the mentally ill so that they would not spawn future generations of “inferior” people dependent on government help (the Nazis took the next step with state-sponsored euthanasia of the handicapped and mentally ill).  Margaret Sanger’s efforts to liberalize abortion bans in this period was a veiled eugenics effort (she was one of their advocates, Burns stated in the documentary).