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2023-05-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The Boston Brahmins, WASPs, and Nazis: The Pursuit of Eugenics

[Mises] During the progressive era, academia hastily adopted the inhumane pseudoscience of eugenics, and its results on the world were devastating. The influence of the Boston Brahmins in New England can explain the fervent adoption of this malignant belief. This elite and well-educated class of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants reeked of pomp and snobbery.

The origin of the term "Boston Brahmin" came from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. in his 1861 novel Elsie Venner. He chose the unique word "Brahmin" because in India they are the most distinguished caste. This is how the northeastern nobles wanted to be perceived in their neck of the woods.

There was no shortage of academics who propagated the eugenics movement. Richard T. Ely was a Columbia University graduate and persistently proselytized eugenic dogma. In 1901, he favored a bill proposed by an Indiana state senator, Thomas J. Lindley, to regulate marriage with the intent that the couple would not have "unfit" children. The state would examine their physical, mental, racial, and moral attributes to decide whether they could wed.

The US Army would conduct a test called the Army Alpha to evaluate soldiers’ intelligence. Richard Ely was pleased to learn the state could evaluate the hereditary status of human livestock. Ely blatantly disapproved of the "unfit" in his book Studies in the Evolution of Industrial Society. He states, "The sad fact, however, is not that of competition, but the existence of these feeble persons." When India was amidst a famine, Ely called for their starvation to continue for the sake of "race improvement." He also claimed black people were "grown up children and should be treated as such."

Ely’s academic prowess, heavily seasoned with racism and eugenics, would unfortunately be passed on to his students. While at Johns Hopkins University, Ely mentored [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson. Eventually becoming Princeton University’s president, Wilson excluded black students from enrolling. Having absorbed the skewed beliefs of Ely, New Jersey governor Wilson signed a sterilization bill targeting the "hopelessly defective and criminal classes."...

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 This elite and well-educated class of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants reeked of pomp and snobbery.

Please replace this picture or include a photo of John Forbes Kerry, the shoe-in for the Hollywood role of pompous, blow-dried Senatorial know nothing snob douchenozzles.

If I ever hit the lottery, I guarantee all of you two things. First - I will get into horse racing, buy a stud horse and enter it into the Kentucky Derby, and the horse will be named Senator Kerry.

Second - the first WCVB Channel 5 (or whoever else beats them to the punch) camera crew to show up at my house will be met by a barrage of fireworks, at which point I will steal their van in the ensuing confusion and drive the fucking thing into Quincy Harbor, conveniently located down the street from my house. I will then walk back up the street and kick the crap out of anyone who's still at my house unless the cops grab me first. Naturally the Norfolk County DA (non-Soros guy by the name of Michael Morrisey) will have received the max donation from me as soon as the lottery payments cleared my bank account. This shit works both ways.

I'm pretty sure I've mentioned to all of you I'm living on borrowed time. I would not mind going out in a blaze of glory like this. My old man (Navy vet in Korea in the 50's) didn't explicitly teach me how to react like this, but I caught his drift. He didn't give a fuck and neither would I.

Posted by Raj 2023-05-28 00:52|| 2023-05-28 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Choose the hammer not the belt.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-28 07:59|| 2023-05-28 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The fact that these Brahmins are still around saddens me. Eugenics is the antithesis of Christianity.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-05-28 08:04|| 2023-05-28 08:04|| Front Page Top

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