You say "Left eugenicists believed that historical elites had selectively bred classes of men for menial and degrading drudgery and sought to ameliorate this condition through eugenic practices...Eugenics programs touted by such leftists and progressives often targeted poor whites." Could you footnote this, and/or comment on the continuity of the left? Jackson Lear: Rebirth of a Nation, p. 100: "The dream of creating a science of eugenics, dedicated to improving and eventually even perfecting human beings, fired the reform imagination for decades. Eugenics was a kind of secular millennialism, a vision of a society where biological engineering complemented social engineering to create a managerial utopia." The main concern was immigrants, to whom the Progressives had an ambivalent relation--assimilation (which would mean miscegenation) at the same time fearing the genetic mixing (deterioration of their "race"). They don't seem to have gotten their "managerial utopia" off the ground by inverting the stigma-hierarchy. That dream seems to be resurrected today, but not claiming a physical basis in science, yet it is the same class advocating social engineering.
You say "Left eugenicists believed that historical elites had selectively bred classes of men for menial and degrading drudgery and sought to ameliorate this condition through eugenic practices...Eugenics programs touted by such leftists and progressives often targeted poor whites." Could you footnote this, and/or comment on the continuity of the left? Jackson Lear: Rebirth of a Nation, p. 100: "The dream of creating a science of eugenics, dedicated to improving and eventually even perfecting human beings, fired the reform imagination for decades. Eugenics was a kind of secular millennialism, a vision of a society where biological engineering complemented social engineering to create a managerial utopia." The main concern was immigrants, to whom the Progressives had an ambivalent relation--assimilation (which would mean miscegenation) at the same time fearing the genetic mixing (deterioration of their "race"). They don't seem to have gotten their "managerial utopia" off the ground by inverting the stigma-hierarchy. That dream seems to be resurrected today, but not claiming a physical basis in science, yet it is the same class advocating social engineering.
The CURRENT left seems to have gotten their predecessors "managerial utopia" off the ground...