13 / January
13 / January
Sterilizing History

A North Carolina task force endorsed $50,000 reparations for victims of its 20th century eugenics program. Progressives once imagined eugenics as cutting-edge science, the wave of the future even. Now everybody realizes how backward it really was. Read my piece @ FrontPageMag on how the liberal press that now inveighs against the eugenics past once played a central role in making that past.

posted at 09:51 AM
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I'm sorry, it's probably obvious, but what's the story on the picture at the top of the article?

Posted by: Homer J. Fong on January 13, 2012 12:06 PM

The real questions are does the Golden Brady get the deer in the headlights stare and subject his team to two intercepetions and a fumble and will the arrogant a-hole in the hoodie be able to figure things out in time enough to win a playoff game?

Just askin'.

Posted by: asdf on January 13, 2012 01:28 PM

It's not obvious to me, either, Homer. Maybe one of the readers could explain it to us.

Posted by: Dan Flynn on January 13, 2012 01:28 PM

Oh, I thought you'd have picked your picks.

Posted by: Homer J. Fong on January 13, 2012 01:56 PM

pics

Posted by: Homer J. Fong on January 13, 2012 02:02 PM

No, I write the article--and usually not even the title. The graphics are left to others, which is fortunate in the case of my books (I quite like the covers particularly on Intellectual Morons and Blue Collar Intellectuals).

Posted by: Dan Flynn on January 13, 2012 03:11 PM

"Now everybody realizes how backward it really was."

Not everybody. There's a new kind of eugenics on the horizon, and it has quite a few fans. Nevertheless, it is equally (if not more) horrifying. For fictional accounts of how horrifying it can be, read Brave New World and see Gattaca.

Posted by: Ralph on January 14, 2012 10:48 AM

Oh, and go Bronco's!

Posted by: Ralph on January 14, 2012 10:49 AM

Sorry, had to troll.

Posted by: asdf on January 14, 2012 12:24 PM

yeah. lets make it all about football. Brave new world my ass. I've got your brave new world... anything else you'ld like to destroy while yer at it? wanna stay on that topic? get the hell off my continent

Posted by: Evangeline on January 14, 2012 11:52 PM
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