 clipped from corner.nationalreview.com
Me: I find this hilarious. First of all, the reader seems not to know that the article is an excerpt from the book. If she'd read the book, she might find out how little some of these folks help her cause. Indeed, she might realize how much she's making my argument for me, as I argue that liberalism and progressivism were shot through with eugenic thought. Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that his “starting point for an ideal for the law” would be the “co-ordinated human effort. . . to build a race.” Yes, W.E.B. Du Bois was sympathetic to eugenics (his "talented tenth" was a eugenic term). Marcus Garvey? You mean the fellow who claimed to have led "the first fascists?" All of this gets mentioned in the book. |
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