Video on eugenics

[sunlit_music]

Hi everyone,

Thought some of you might want to take a peek at this. Definitely worth looking at. The video outlines the thoughts on eugenics by Sir Francis Galton (the father of eugenics), and why eugenics is so dangerous. Eugenics is a violation of human rights.

psychetruth's chilling and disturbing video on eugenics:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tile9943#p/a/f/2/8_l6gbgzwRY

Galton's book Kantsaywhere described a society built to breed fitter and smarter people.

His books support negative eugenics (segregation of those 'unfit' to have children, sterilisation). The man Neverwas gives his property to society of eugenics in Can't say where.

Galton supports these ideas in Kantsaywhere:

- 'unfit' people who have children are sent to work camps, and punished by undergoing surveillance. The 'unfit' were separated from their children. If the 'unfit' have children this is considered a crime.

-Galton considered people who were working class, physically unfit, disabled, mentally ill etc. to be people 'unfit' to have children

- segregation of people deemed unfit.

-selective breeding of human breedings

-donating money to 'fit' people, not disabled, poor or needy

-an elite group of 'fit' people controlling "unfit" people

-caste system where people are classed according to how fit they are to breed

Comments

[baeraad.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what did the ass think of people who just didn't want to breed? Nothing very flattering, I imagine...

[sunlit-music.livejournal.com]

I don't know, really. The remains of Kantsaywhere I read didn't mention childfree people. Knowing that Galton was extremely prejudiced, he may have made horrible assumptions about childfree people.

Galton actually burnt the book Kantsaywhere, so there's only bits and pieces of the book available. You can read the remains of it here:

http://www.abelard.org/iqedfran/kantsaywhere.php