"It is far too soon for governments to tax a whole major food group on the basis of speculative modeling and disputed science." ... See MoreSee Less
How was it that people who considered themselves Christians could troop through exhibitions, such as at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, and gawk at other groups of people exhibited like animals? Just because they came from more “primitive” cultures, such as the Philippines’?
How could thousands of church-going New Yorkers, over several sold-out weeks, go to the Bronx Zoo to gawk at Ota Benga, an African pygmy kidnapped from his faraway home, and displayed in a cage with orangutans, as the “missing” link in evolution? (After protests from black clergymen, he was eventually released, but ten years later committed suicide.)
How exactly did America’s intellectual elites, in the 1920s and 30s, fall in love with eugenics, and back laws in 13 states that forcibly sterilized thousands of Americans — just for flunking culturally biased IQ tests?
How can the eugenics organization, Planned Parenthood, which sponsored those laws (soon emulated in Nazi Germany), still be a major force today, receiving hundreds of millions in federal funding?
Darwinism fed strongly into the racist views current back then. Prominent Darwinists strove to make the random evolution of man more plausible by pointing to … more “primitive” races. Exhibits meant to sell evolution to the masses routinely pictured Africans as virtual “missing links” between lower primates and … nice, rich, “civilized” white folks in frock coats and bustles. Adolf Hitler cited Darwin in Mein Kampf as the thinker who opened his eyes to the “real” engine of history — a ruthless struggle among the races, to see which is fittest, and will survive. ... See MoreSee Less
