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CIVILISATION, SCIENCE AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING
The legacy of eugenics: from evolution to genocide and its rebirth in the population control movement by LIAM GIBSON
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idespread concerns regarding the managementof publicschoolsintheUnitedStates have been mounting for years. But when school authorities dealt dismissively with questions over theirCovidrestrictions,theangerof American par ents boiled over and helped turn education into themajorelectoralissue1 of Throughout .120 the year,parentscomplainedabouttheirchildrenbeing exposed to explicit material, transgender ideolo gy, school closures and mask mandates. But most serious of all were the objections to the influence of criticalracetheory(CRT)andthedepictionof Americaasirredeemably2 racist. CRT’sportrayalof Americansof European de scent as the class enemies of ethnic minorities has made this one of the most explosive issues in contemporaryUSpoliticsandhasborneoutThomas Sowell'sobservationthat: “Fewmixturesaremorevolatilethanraceand politics. The normal frictions and resentments among individuals and groups seldom approach themagnitudeof frenzyandviolenceproduced "The eugenists wanted to shift the birth control emphasis from 3 bythepoliticisationof race.” fewer children for the poor to more children for the rich. We went
back on that and sought first to stop the multiplication of the unfit.
appeared the most important and greatest step towards race Resistance to the introduction of CRT- inThis Dem betterment.” ocrat-dominated districts has led some left-wing — Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography (Pergamon, 1938) pp 374-5. commentators to warn that Republicans are - be 4 InNovember,the coming“thepartyof parents”. Currently,acrosstheUS,aroundBills 137 have RepublicansgainedahistoricvictorywhenGlenn beenHis introduced to curtail the teaching of contenYoungkinwaselectedgovernorof Virginia. first tioussubjectssuchasCRT. 5 AccordingtoThe-Phil o{cialaction,afterbeingsworninon16January was ,20 tosignanexecutiveorderbanningCRT adelphiaInquirer:“Educationexpertssayaflood new laws and proposals to curb discussions of andsimilar“divisiveconcepts”fromtheof schools. S PR I NG 2 0 22
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