These were some of the most brilliant and famous intellectuals of their times. Harvard, Columbia, Yale, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Brown, Wisconsin, Michigan, Berkeley, Carnegie Institution, Rochefeller Foundation, E H Harriman, etc. p 24, 28, etc.
Teddy Roosevelt, avid for eugenics.
The US Supreme Court was onboard: Buck v Bell.
Holmes, for the majority: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough!"
Even someone like Krugman would be onboard here! He hates imbeciles morons and zombies.
Charles Davenport: "Can we build a wall high enough to keep out these cheaper races.....? p 28.
The startling thing is how much of Hitler's eugenics came from American and British, European Continental and German mainstream science, as well as some pseudo science.
Yet Americans, and others in the West and elsewhere, have long been indoctrinated to think of Nazi ideas as strictly the German peoples' cultural perversions. They were anything but that.
If anything, they reflected, in my view, a pinnacle of post Enlightenment natural and social science. "Social Darwinism and Eugenics" Wade
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