NYT Rewrites Scalia to Make Him Sound Less Racist

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36. "Just thinking about Ken Cribb brings a smile to your face."

"Just thinking about Ken Cribb brings a smile to your face," says the Federalist Society's Eugene Meyer..."Ed Meese was Ronald Reagan's right hand, and Ken Cribb was Ed Meese's right hand."

-- Lee Edwards

Alarming, that white superiority crapola, in light of the history of a certain very, very wealthy mineral extraction outfit working outta Chicago. Edwin Black termed their work "The War Against the Weak." Those unfamiliar with his work will enjoy learning about what he termed the "California Connection" to eugenics:

Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection

Edwin Black
San Francisco Gate, Sunday, November 9, 2003

Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race.

But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.

Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed at "improving" the human race. In its extreme, racist form, this meant wiping away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in 27 states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.

California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the 20th century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little-known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles Goethe, as well as members of the California state Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.

Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.

Stanford President David Starr Jordan originated the notion of "race and blood" in his 1902 racial epistle "Blood of a Nation," in which the university scholar declared that human qualities and conditions such as talent and poverty were passed through the blood.
In 1904, the Carnegie Institution established a laboratory complex at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island that stockpiled millions of index cards on ordinary Americans, as researchers carefully plotted the removal of families, bloodlines and whole peoples. From Cold Spring Harbor, eugenics advocates agitated in the legislatures of America, as well as the nation's social service agencies and associations.

The Harriman railroad fortune paid local charities, such as the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration, to seek out Jewish, Italian and other immigrants in New York and other crowded cities and subject them to deportation, confinement or forced sterilization.

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http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Eugenics-and-the-Nazis-the-California-2549771.php

All that, of course, is old news to you, stark raving lunacy for those who work for Roger Ailes and toil for Cass Sunstein, and a terrifying reality for all of us who consider the impact of secret government on democracy.

Thank you, starroute. From my first posts on DU in 2002 as Oblomov, you have always put things together in a way that historians -- as well as Democrats and all readers -- appreciate.