The (neurotic) concern with purity of the Anglo-Saxon/Nordic peoples led the eugenicists to target various groups. As Black puts
it: “Ten groups were eventually identified as “socially unfit” and  targeted
for “elimination.” First, the feebleminded; second, the pauper class; third, the inebriate class or alcoholics; fourth, criminals of all descriptions
including petty criminals and those jailed for non-payment of fines; fifth, epileptics; sixth, the insane; seventh, the constitutionally weak class;
eighth, those predisposed to specific diseases; ninth, the deformed; tenth, those with defective sense organs, that is, the deaf, blind and mute. In
this last category, there was no indication of how severe the defect need be to qualify; no distinction was made between blurry vision or bad hearing
and outright blindness or deafness.” |
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What was to happen to those who were ‘unfit’? Sterilization. Some suggested ‘mercy’ killing. The sterilisation became a reality
in many states. The ‘scientific’ justification: categories based on purely subjective criteria and prejudice, falsified
photographic evidence, and fabricated studies such as Goddard’s The
Kallikak Family. That and the support of The Carnegie Institution, Rockefeller Foundation money and such people as the well-known Dr. Kellogg
whose brother invented the breakfast cereal. The fake science was re-exported to Europe and put to work there, again
with aid of American funding. The effects were even more devastating than in America. It was to form the pseudo-scientific basis for the genocidal
policies of Hitler’s regime with IBM giving much-needed support on the administrative side of things (both prior to and during the war itself) in
the interests of shareholder value.
What emerges from this short survey is that those branches of science concerned most directly with human beings are exactly the ones
most likely to be perverted so as to exercise control over less powerful groups in a society. Thus in materialist societies there is a strong incentive
for ruling elites to generate and maintain such theories and to invest effort in giving them legal frameworks since they function as instruments of control
with the full weight of the state behind them. |
