By Jon Ray @ Dissecting Leftism
Eugenics was one of the great enthusiasms of the prewar Left. In the
1920s and 1930's, Socialists everywhere embraced it, including National
Socialists in Germany
The abiding mark of socialists is that they want to change the world --
change it into what they think will be a better place. And eugenics
fitted that perfectly. If they removed the "weeds" from the human race,
that would make a greatly improved world. And Leftist legislatures
worldwide passed eugenic laws of varying severity: Sweden, Germany and
the United States being prominent examples
The man who took it furthest was however Adolf Hitler. He killed
"useless eaters" in droves. So the military defeat of Hitler led to him
and all his works being discredited: So suddenly there were no longer
any differences between races and eugenics was immoral. Hitler had been
a such a great menace and ended up such an abject failure that any
similarities with him had to be denied.
Leftists everywhere dropped eugenics like a sizzling potato. They no
longer advocated it. More significant, however was that they succeeded
in casting a cloak of silence over it. They succeeded in blanking out
all memory of their association with eugenics. Hardly anyone now knows
what a great enthusiasm eugenics once was for the Left. Were it well
known, their great enthusiasms of the present -- such as global warming
and transgenderism -- might also be viewed skeptically.
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