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McLeroy and the Texas SBOE at it again

I swear, these people need to be replaced en masse... Heck, can we just relocate Johnson, TI, and Austin out of Texas, and let them become the third rate little theocracy they so desperatly seem to want to be...
 
Holy right wing paranoia, Batman!

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/McLeroy_Amendments_-_May.pdf?docID=1461

The justifications for the inclusion of studies of the eugenics movment are absolutely insane.

But aren't they also true?
Quote from War Against the Weak, by Edward Black, 2003:
In the first three decades of the 20th Century, American corporate philanthropy combined with prestigious academic fraud to create the pseudoscience eugenics that institutionalized race politics as national policy. The goal: create a superior, white, Nordic race and obliterate the viability of everyone else. How? By identifying so-called "defective" family trees and subjecting them to legislated segregation and sterilization programs. The victims: poor people, brownhaired white people, African Americans, immigrants, Indians, Eastern European Jews, the infirm and really anyone classified outside the superior genetic lines drawn up by American raceologists. The main culprits were the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune, in league with America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, operating out of a complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. The eugenic network worked in tandem with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the State Department and numerous state governmental bodies and legislatures throughout the country, and even the U.S. Supreme Court. They were all bent on breeding a eugenically superior race, just as agronomists would breed better strains of corn. The plan was to wipe away the reproductive capability of the weak and inferior. Ultimately, 60,000 Americans were coercively sterilized — legally and extra-legally. Many never discovered the truth until decades later. Those who actively supported eugenics include America's most progressive figures: Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger and Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The only thing that bugs me is the "America's most progressive figures" line. Yes, they did support it (if Wikipedia is telling the truth), however there were non-progressives who supported it as well.

Eugenics and, pardon me as I'm forgetting the name of it: the science that was used to declare Blacks as inferior to whites based on cranium sizes, etc, are a blight on the USA's past.

Now, the first item in that document regarding the 1st amendment bugs me. But this one doesn't.
 
Problem is, they are using Eugenics to discredit Evolution, since Eugenics used Evolution as a basis. It's is a standard tactic of the Creationists when they are into "Evolution is not only wrong, it's Evil" mode.
 
Problem is, they are using Eugenics to discredit Evolution, since Eugenics used Evolution as a basis. It's is a standard tactic of the Creationists when they are into "Evolution is not only wrong, it's Evil" mode.

I didn't see that in the justification. Is this just a fear or is it actually occurring somewhere? And so what if they are? This is a black mark on the country that shouldn't be ignored deliberately hidden just because some people are using this as a historical basis as for why something else can be evil.
 
I didn't see that in the justification. Is this just a fear or is it actually occurring somewhere? And so what if they are? This is a black mark on the country that shouldn't be ignored deliberately hidden just because some people are using this as a historical basis as for why something else can be evil.


I agree that it shouldn't be hidden because some people are using it as a bogus anti-evolution argument. However, when you consider that these are the people who did their best to get creationism into the curriculum and are the ultimate "Rah Rah America #1" types, I'm putting my chips on "anti-evolution" rather than "honest evaluation of America's failings."
 
I agree that it shouldn't be hidden because some people are using it as a bogus anti-evolution argument. However, when you consider that these are the people who did their best to get creationism into the curriculum and are the ultimate "Rah Rah America #1" types, I'm putting my chips on "anti-evolution" rather than "honest evaluation of America's failings."

Ah.

I thought you might have had access to a lesson plan or video where they were using Eugenics to argue against a modern scientific theory.
 
Ah.

I thought you might have had access to a lesson plan or video where they were using Eugenics to argue against a modern scientific theory.

Nope. Just reason and logic based extrapolation from available evidence.

What do you have?
 
I didn't see that in the justification. Is this just a fear or is it actually occurring somewhere? And so what if they are? This is a black mark on the country that shouldn't be ignored deliberately hidden just because some people are using this as a historical basis as for why something else can be evil.

Terri Leo, one of the arch conservatives on the SBOE has said: “And by the way, eugenics started with Darwin.”
 
Terri Leo, one of the arch conservatives on the SBOE has said: “And by the way, eugenics started with Darwin.”

No, eugenics started after our species came up with animal husbandry and thought it would be a good idea to apply it to humans.

That's been going on for thousands of years before Charles Darwin was born.
 
No, eugenics started after our species came up with animal husbandry and thought it would be a good idea to apply it to humans.

That's been going on for thousands of years before Charles Darwin was born.

There's a grain of truth to your statement. Racism (a big part of the stigma prior to Darwin) and eugenic like ideas such as those by Plato did exist before Darwin.

But it was upon Darwin's research that it took off. The word" eugenics" was originally coined by Darwin's cousin who applied his cousins research on natural selection to humanity.

It doesn't do anyone any favors to try and hide what the influences of eugenics were. Kids will become adults and they may eventually read about the terrible things society did back in the day. They'll then begin to distrust their own education as a white-washed indoctrination.

Give kids the whole history. Most of them will be smart enough to determine what's true from that.
 
So instead of actually acknowledging what the founding fathers said, they decide to sideline the ones they don't agree with. Great. And I thought the whole "Atlantic triangular trade" concept had been debunked long ago.

Any chance they can extend that anti-immigration fence the entire way around Texas?
 

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