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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 12, 2024, 10:49 pm
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Germany's Scientific Racialist Institution were existed before
Hitler regime, and [b]funded by American Philantrophies,
Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Harriman[/b]
[quote]By the mid-twenties, Germany had achieved preeminence in
both legitimate genetic research and racial biology. Germany’s
new status arose, in large measure, from its distinguished
Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes. An outgrowth of the esteemed Kaiser
Wilhelm Society, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes would over time
develop a network of research institutions devoted to the
highest pursuits of science. These included the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Physics, boasting a shelf of Nobel Prizes, a
sister institute for chemistry, another for biology, another for
pathology, and many more. The twenty-plus Kaiser Wilhelm
organizations were easily confused and bore related names. But
while they were related, they were independent and often located
in different cities. In fact, at one point Davenport confessed
to a London colleague, “There are so many Kaiser Wilhelm
Institutes, that it is necessary to specify.”15
Also among the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes were several that would
soon make their mark in the history of medical murder. The first
was the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry. The second was
the Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. The
third was the Institute for Brain Research. All received funding
and administrative support from Americans, especially the
Rockefeller Foundation.
James Loeb, an American banker and art lover of German-Jewish
descent who lived in Europe, was among the first to subsidize
the organizations that evolved into the Kaiser Wilhelm group. In
early 1916, Loeb granted 500,000 marks to the German Psychiatric
Institute in Munich.16 Loeb’s money, however, was quickly
overshadowed by the Rockefeller Foundation’s.
Rockefeller’s connection to German biomedicine traced back to
the early years of the twentieth century, when Germany’s
scientific preeminence was first challenged by America and its
new system of corporate philanthropic funding begun by Carnegie,
Rockefeller and Harriman. Medical educator Abraham Flexner was
among the first to establish significant corporate philanthropic
financial links with Germany. Flexner completed his monumental
Carnegie Institution survey, Medical Education in the United
States and Canada, in 1910. The prodigious report compared North
America’s medical inadequacy to Germany’s excellence. Flexner
next turned to Europe, creating the 1912 report, Medical
Education in Europe. Soon Flexner was renowned for his
pioneering reports and was invited to help lead medical efforts
at Rockefeller’s powerful new foundation.17[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 409 - 411
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 12, 2024, 10:52 pm
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Racial Science and Institutions in Germany existed before Hitler
rose to power, funded by Rockefeller philanthropy from United
States
[quote]The third Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Germany’s eugenic
complex was the Institute for Brain Research. Like other Kaiser
Wilhelm Institutes, this one grew out of a research operation
created years earlier by the family of psychiatrist Oskar Vogt,
which merged into the KWI in 1915. In those days the Institute
for Brain Research was housed in a modest neurological
laboratory also run by Vogt. Everything changed when the
Rockefeller money arrived in 1929. A grant of $317,000 allowed
the institute to construct a major building and take center
stage in German race biology. Rockefeller funders were
especially interested in the Institute’s Department of
Experimental Genetics, headed by Russian geneticist Nikolai
Timofeeff-Ressovsky. The Institute for Brain Research received
additional grants from the Rockefeller Foundation during the
next several years.34[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 416
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 13, 2024, 2:53 am
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Eugenic and Sterilization Policy in Hitler Regime
[quote]It did not take Germany long to implement its eugenic
vision. The first law was decreed July 14, 1933: Reich Statute
Part I, No. 86, the Law for the Prevention of Defective Progeny.
It was a mass compulsory sterilization law. Rüdin was coeditor
of the official rules and commentary on the law.77
Nine categories of defectives were identified for sterilization.
At the top of the list were the feebleminded, followed by those
afflicted by schizophrenia, manic depression, Huntington’s
chorea, epilepsy, hereditary body deformities, deafness and, of
course, hereditary blindness. Alcoholism, the ninth category,
was listed as optional to avoid confusion with ordinary
drunkenness. The Reich announced that 400,000 Germans would
immediately be subjected to the procedure, beginning January 1,
1934,78
In 1937, Laughlin and his Cold Spring Harbor office became the
U.S. distributor of a two-reel Nazi eugenic propaganda film
entitled Erbkrank (The Hereditarily Diseased). Erbkrank began
with scenes of squalid German slums where superior Nordic
families were forced to live because so much public money was
spent on bright, well-constructed institutions to house the
feebleminded. Laughlin loaned the film to high schools in New
York and New Jersey, to welfare workers in Connecticut, and to
the Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Although he
acquired the film from the Race Policy Office of the Nazi Party
(Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP), he assured, “There is no
racial propaganda of any sort in the picture; it is [simply]
recognized that every race has its own superior family-stocks
and its own degenerate strains.”138
Yet in fact the film declared, “Jewish liberal thinking forced
millions of healthy volk-nationals into need and squalor-while
the unfit were overly coddled.” In another frame the movie
explained, “The Jewish people has a particularly high percentage
of mentally ill.” Indeed, one archetypal defective citizen was a
mental patient described as a “fiftyfive year old
Jew-deceitful-rabble-rouser.”139
No matter how dismal the plight of the Jews in Germany, no
matter how horrifying the headlines, no matter how close Europe
came to all-out war, no matter how often German troops poured
across another border, American eugenicists stood fast by their
eugenic hero, Adolf Hitler.
In 1938, Germany accelerated the humiliation of the Jews, as
well as the Aryanization and confiscation of their property. On
November 10, 1938, the world was shocked by the German national
anti-Jewish riots and pogroms known as Kristallnacht. Over one
hundred synagogues were burned across the Reich, and thousands
of Jews were marched off to concentration camps. The Gestapo and
SS had by now subsumed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the
Society for Racial Hygiene and indeed all of German medicine.140
Fischer, Lenz, Rüdin and the other stalwarts became the medical
generals of Hitler’s campaign against humanity. In 1936, Rüdin
assumed leadership of the Institute for Racial Hygiene in
Munich, one of the main centers tasked with deciding which
German citizens possessed Jewish blood, and how much. In 1937,
Lenz and Rüdin, in a joint operation with the Gestapo,
orchestrated the identification and rounding-up of some five
hundred to six hundred “Rhineland bastards,” the offspring of
Black French colonial soldiers; they were all secretly
sterilized. Some 200,000 Germans of all backgrounds had been
sterilized by 1937. After that the records were not
published.141[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 430, 449, 450
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 22, 2024, 10:18 pm
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Hitler Regime practiced sterilization and medical torture mostly
towards Europeans or "Whites"
[quote]Mengele was not alone. Hitler’s doctors operated a vast
network of experimentation in Nazi concentration camps,
euthanasia mills and other places in the territories it
occupied. Much of that experimentation was eugenic and genetic,
such as the work of Mengele. Much of it was strictly medical,
such as the testing at Buchenwald designed to find cures or
medicines for well-known diseases. Much of it was simply
strategic, such as the cruel ice water and high altitude tests
at Dachau intended to benefit Luftwaffe pilots bailing out over
the North Atlantic.115
But even when strictly medical or military testing was inflicted
on helpless subjects, it was most often imposed along eugenic
lines. More specifically, many Aryans-such as habitual
criminals, Jehovah’s Witnesses and socialists-were imprisoned in
camps under beastly conditions. Mostly, it was the worthless and
expendable-Jews, Gypsies, Russians and other “sub-human”
prisoners-who were victimized as medical fodder. The exceptions
were those Germans considered hereditary misfits, such as
homosexuals and the feebleminded. All of it was in furtherance
of Hitler’s biological revolution and his quest for a master
race in a Thousand-Year Reich.[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 512 - 513
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 22, 2024, 10:25 pm
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United States commit sterilization based on racial and eugenic
laws even after World War 2 ended
[quote]Although the ERO stopped functioning in 1939, America’s
eugenic laws did not. Tens of thousands of Americans continued
to be forcibly sterilized, institutionalized and legally
prevented from marriage on the basis of racial and eugenic laws.
During the 1940s, some 15,000 Americans were coercively
sterilized, almost a third of them in California. In the
fifties, about ten thousand were sterilized. In the sixties,
thousands more were sterilized. All told, an estimated 70,000
were eugenically sterilized in the first seven decades of the
twentieth century; the majority were women. California
consistently outdistanced every other state.48
...
Nonetheless many of the laws are still on the books. For
example, North Carolina’s eugenic sterilization law, although
not used for years, remains in force and was even updated in
1973 and 1981. Chapter 35, Article 7 still allows for court
ordered sterilization for moral as well as medical improvement.
While most states stopped enforcing sterilization statutes in
the sixties and seventies, the practice did not stop everywhere.
Across the country, additional thousands of poor urban dwellers,
Puerto Rican women and Native Americans on reservations
continued to be sterilized-not under state laws, but under
special federal provisions.52[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 550, 552
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 22, 2024, 10:35 pm
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It's the United States which targeted the less-fortunates and
"non-whites" for eugenic and anything resulting oppressive
practices
[quote]By the late 1920s, the Carnegie Institution had confirmed
by its own investigations what many in the scientific world and
society at large had long been saying: that the eugenic science
it helped create was a fraud.58 Nevertheless, Carnegie allowed
its Cold Spring Harbor enterprise to supply the specious
information needed to validate Virginia’s legal crusade to
sterilize Carrie Buck. Relying on Laughlin’s pseudoscience and
his own prejudices, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes had established the law of the land. In 1927, Holmes’
famous opinion decreed:
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute
degenerate off-spring for crime, or to let them starve for their
imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit
from continuing their kind …. Three generations of imbeciles are
enough.59
With Holmes’ decision in hand, Carnegie’s Cold Spring Harbor
enterprise had unleashed a national campaign to reinforce long
dormant state laws, enact new ones and dramatically increase the
number of sterilizations across America. Sterilizations
multiplied, marriage restrictions were broadened. Hundreds of
thousands were never born. Untold numbers never married. The
intent had been to stop the reproduction of targeted non-Nordic
groups and others considered unfit. It continued into the 1970s,
probably even later. It was all said to be legal, based on
science, sanctioned by the highest courts. But what was it
really?[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 553 - 554
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 22, 2024, 10:44 pm
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SS Race and Settlement Office leader Hofmann exposed United
States cruel racial laws during his trial on Nuremberg
[quote]On January 20, 1942, SS Race and Settlement Office leader
Hofmann had attended the infamous Wannsee Conference, the
planning session associated with the Final Solution. The Wannsee
Protocol produced after the conference made the eugenic
guidelines clear. Mixed Jews of the “first degree,” that is,
Jews with substantial German blood in their ancestry, could be
exempted from “evacuation,” the code word for extermination, but
only if they were sterilized. The Wannsee Protocol recorded:
“Hofmann is of the opinion that extensive use must be made of
sterilization.” The protocol also recorded that “[Persons of
mixed blood] exempted from evacuation will be sterilized in
order to obviate progeny and to settle the [mixed blood] problem
for good. Sterilization is voluntary, but it is the condition
for remaining in the Reich.”80
Confronted by prosecutors at his trial with charges of eugenic
extermination, Hofmann said little in his own defense, and
openly admitted he was a Nazi eugenicist.
PROSECUTOR: When did you become chief of the Eugenics Office in
RuSHA?
HOFMANN: At the beginning of 1939 I was appointed to this task….
Q: What were your duties there?
A: The Eugenics Office was responsible for carrying out the
betrothal and marriage order which Himmler had issued on 31
December 1931 to the SS…. The RuSHA leader had to look after the
eugenics research offices of the SS, regiments, and, according
to his qualifications and talents, he influenced cultural life
within the areas of the main district.81
Hofmann could not understand why the United States thought his
actions were crimes against humanity. He placed into evidence a
special report on America produced by the Nazi Party’s
Race-Political Office years before on July 30, 1937. “The United
States,” asserted the report, “however, also provides an example
for the racial legislation of the world in another respect.
Although it is clearly established in the Declaration of
Independence that everyone born in the United States is a
citizen of the United States and so acquires all the rights
which an American citizen can acquire, impassable lines are
drawn between the individual races, especially in the Southern
States. Thus in certain States Japanese are excluded from the
ownership of land or real estate and they are prevented from
cultivating arable land. Marriages between colored persons and
whites are forbidden in no less than thirty of the Federal
States. Marriages contracted in spite of this ban are declared
invalid.” Typical laws were recited from Alabama, Arizona,
Arkansas, California and Florida.82
The special report added, “Since 1907, sterilization laws have
been passed in twenty-nine States of the United States of
America.”83
Hofmann’s document made one other point. It offered the
following justification, originally translated from English into
German and then back into English for the trial:
In a judgment of the [U.S.] Supreme Court … it says, among other
things: “It is better for everybody if society, instead of
waiting until it has to execute degenerate offspring or leave
them to starve because of feeble-mindedness, can prevent
obviously inferior individuals from propagating their kind.”84
Honann was sentenced to twenty-five years imprisonment.85
For three-perhaps four-decades after the Treaty Against Genocide
was adopted, the United States continued to sterilize targeted
groups because of their eugenic or racial character, real or
supposed; and continued to hamper reproduction, interfere with
procreation, and prevent births in targeted groups. After the
Hitler regime, after the Nuremberg Trials, some twenty thousand
Americans were eugenically sterilized by states and untold
others by federal programs on Indian reservations and in U.S.
territories such as Puerto Rico.[/quote]
Source :
War Against the Weak Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a
Master Race page 561 - 563
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: June 26, 2024, 10:07 pm
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Max Weber
[quote]The controversy surrounding Weber’s politics continues,
although increasingly disengaged from contemporary politics. In
his 2004 intellectual biography of Weber, German-American
sociologist Fritz Ringer rejected outright Mommsen’s
characterization of Weber and especially his attempt to portray
his foreign and domestic politics as in line with what would
follow under Hitler and the Nazis. Ringer insists that Weber
wanted to model post-imperial Germany on the American political
system. He recognized that American president relied on the
power of persuasion and often used his bully pulpit in a
somewhat demagogic way. The president was nevertheless
constrained by federalism and other checks and balances built
into the national government (Ringer, 2004).
Weber’s liberalism helped to liberate him from his prejudice
against Poles. At a 1910 meeting of the Social Policy
Association, he protested against a colleague’s effort to define
nations in racial terms. He strongly opposed anti-Semitism. He
collaborated with Jewish colleagues, supervised Jewish students,
and struggled to find them good positions. He failed in the case
of Georg Simmel, whom he very much wanted as a colleague in
Heidelberg. Weber imagined what an intellectual joy it would be
to teach a seminar composed entirely of Jewish, Polish, and
Russian students (Radkau, 2011: 432–436). He was nevertheless
guilty of other forms of racism. In April 1917, he swallowed
whole the general staff’s propaganda about the need to defend
the country against the mongrel forces of the allies. In one of
his Frankfurter Zeitung articles, he proclaimed that, Germany is
fighting for its very life against an army in which there are
Negroes, Ghurkas and all manner of barbarians who have come from
their hiding places all over the world and who are now gathered
at the borders of Germany, ready to lay waste to our country.
(Weber, 1995).
....
In the immediate aftermath of World War I and Versailles, Weber
turned to Machiavelli for intellectual comfort. Weber (2000c)
wished that Germans were more like Machiavelli’s Florentines,
who “held the greatness of their native city to be of greater
importance than the salvation of their souls.” Like Machiavelli,
Weber admired leaders who used questionable efforts to achieve
admirable ends. Weber was also attracted to Machiavelli’s
rejection of Christian ethics as hypocritical and inappropriate
to politics. Weber (2000d) offered an even starker contrast
between civic and religious responsibilities in his condemnation
of the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount as incompatible with
political action and thereby lacking in dignity.
As is well known, Weber distinguishes the ethics of conviction
(Gesinnungsethik) from those of responsibility
(Verantwortungsethik). The former requires people to act in
accord with their principles regardless of the expected outcome.
He disparages this ethic as an unaffordable luxury in a world
where force must sometimes be used for survival or important
policy ends. “No ethics in the world,” he reasons, “can get
round the fact that the achievement of ‘good’ ends is in many
cases tied to the necessity of employing morally dangerous
means, and that one must reckon with the possibility or even
likelihood of evil side-effects” (Weber, 2000d). The ethic of
responsibility, which directs attention to the consequences of
one’s behavior, is more appropriate to politics. Anybody who
fails to recognize this truth, he asserts, “is indeed a child in
political matters” (Weber, 2000d).[/quote]
Source :
Lebow, R. N. (2020). Max Weber’s ethics. Journal of
International Political Theory, 16(3), 305-322.
HTML https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088219854780
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: August 5, 2024, 8:47 pm
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John Maynard Keynes
[quote]Keynes was interested in eugenics from the very beginning
of his academic career. His first major academic project was his
fellowship dissertation, submitted in December 1907. In the
dissertation, he refers to Sir Francis Galton’s essay
Probability: The Foundation of Eugenics. This shows that Keynes
was already interested in eugenics by 1907.1
...
Keynes was especially concerned about overpopulation in the
East: “India, Egypt and China are gravely overpopulated.”8 He
thought his race was facing a “race struggle.”9 He advocated the
use of imperialistic government violence against Eastern races
to protect the “white population.”
Almost any measures seem to me to be justified in order to
protect our standard of life from injury at the hands of more
prolific races. Some definite parceling out of the world may
well become necessary; and I suppose that this may not
improbably provoke racial wars. At any rate such wars will be
about a substantial issue.10[/quote]
Source :
Fuller, E. W. (2019, November 14). Keynes on Eugenics, Race, and
Population Control. Mises Institute.
HTML https://mises.org/mises-wire/keynes-eugenics-race-and-population-control
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Re: Racial View of Western Philosopher from John Locke to Karl M
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By: antihellenistic Date: September 5, 2024, 12:15 am
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Thomas Jefferson
[quote]“The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made
distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites
in the endowments both of body and mind." - Thomas Jefferson,
United States President (March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809)[/quote]
Source :
Jefferson, T., & Magnis, N. E. (1999). Thomas Jefferson and
Slavery: An Analysis of His Racist Thinking as Revealed by His
Writings and Political Behavior. Journal of Black Studies,
29(4), 491–509.
HTML http://www.jstor.org/stable/2645866
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