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    Ganelon
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    Eugenics??

    According to the wikipedia article on the history of eugenics, eugenics was widespread in the 1920-1940s:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...ugenics#Canada
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...#United_States

    I did not know this. Wow.

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    Re: Eugenics??

    Eugenics, scientific racism, and just general poor-bashing have a rich academic history. It's something worth reading into, and provides a lot of context for where fascism and other batshit ideologies came from. School leads you to believe it's just "something something ignorant poor people were angry about the depression something something" when there was actually a lot of precedent.
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    naz, he's claiming to have been at your house last night and infected you. I know u were drunk but PLEASE try as hard as you can to remember... That burning you felt the next morning when you went pee was from me, not him.

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    Re: Eugenics??

    Wow... I had heard that the Nazis had used colonial British "racial ranking" as part of their basis for their own ranking, but that's a lot worse.

    And yzb, I think you're both right and wrong. There sure were people who had a big background of such things, but that was out of the knowledge range of many, many people who just were indeed "angry because of the Depression", so to speak. Those two aspects are not mutually exclusive, but complementary.

    Plus, crazy sciencists aren't the basis of fascism; Mussolini's regime is a good proof of this. It's about the State, not the race. Nazism and fascism are closely related, but they are not the same.
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    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
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    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
    Spoiler : The meaning of life :

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    Ganelon
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    Re: Eugenics??

    The US forcibly sterilised 60,000 people over the course of around 30-40 years. it was by no means a fringe movement.

    it did indeed started becoming less and less popular after the 30s-40s, but it was WW2/the nazis that really delivered the killing blow. in the 50s for instance, a eugenics scientific magazine/journal became Social Biology.

    it was actually legal in Canada/the US for physicians to sterilise the "feeble-minded". mind you, this wasn't necessarily about race, not in every country, anyways. in Brazil, it was indeed about race, where the white (minority?) implemented a program they literally called "White-ization". in Australia, they had this program where halfbreed Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their parents.

    crazy scientists weren't the sole basis of fascism, but they allowed it to flourish. just like crazy economic theorists (Marx) allowed Communism to flourish.
    plus, the most important thing is, it proves that these ideologies didn't exactly appear out of nowhere.
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    Re: Eugenics??

    Quote Originally Posted by Ganelon View Post
    Crazy scientists weren't the sole basis of fascism, but they allowed it to flourish. just like crazy economic theorists (Marx) allowed Communism to flourish.
    plus, the most important thing is, it proves that these ideologies didn't exactly appear out of nowhere.
    True.

    And yes, nazism isn't very good publicity :P
    Quote Originally Posted by The Lawyer View Post
    Besides your lamp and your refridgerators, do you find anyone else suspicious?
    Quote Originally Posted by oliverz144 View Post
    it looks like many, e.g. MM and lag, suffered under the influence of paopan. However there is a victim: frinckles. He left the path of rationality and fully dived into the parallel reality of baby shark, king shark, and soviet union pizzas.
    Spoiler : The meaning of life :

 

 

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