\re: #244 clgood

Beck’s little primer on eugenics seems quite factual to me. I don’t know why he left out the most influential eugenicisist in America, Margaret Sanger. She founded Planned Parenthood. More people should learn the real history of what “progressives” were up to in the early twentieth century. Up to that point in the show it was “so far, so good”.

Then he just gets all kinds of scattered. That weird blackboard chart seemed to hit inarticulately at several targets, many of which are valid on their own. The “Green” movement really is about social control, and the Nazis really did like both abortion and euthanasia, etc. But he failed to show a clear “connection” between whatever and that other thing.

For a guy who makes his living in the media he really seemed unfocussed here. I’ve only recently started seeing some Beck clips and, I must say, I haven’t been too impressed.

But I’m also suspicious of the editing that turned his hour show into these ten minutes. I know how to edit, and I’ve seen myself edited. I know all too well that any edit belies a bias. It’s unavoidable.

Can someone clarify for me if there was actually any conservative opposition to the ugly eugenics crap that sadly went around in the U.S. and Europe in the late-nineteenth-early-20th? I keep hearing it referred to as ‘progressive’, or ‘socialist’, but my impression is that it was pretty nonpartisan. Info, info, please?