Waistline2 cb31450 at gmail.com writes: >> CB: Shane's posts are not racist/white chauvinist.<<
Comment Why the subterfuge ? I wrote nothing about Shane's post. I responded to the question: "What's wrong with eugenics." Why not still to the point? ^^^^^ CB: I'm replying to where you say "Shane is a racist". All I know of Shane is his posts to these lists. I don't know what he does aside from posting to these lists. His posting to these lists, including his comment on eugenics are not racist or white chauvinist or white supremicist, in my opinion. His "what's wrong with eugenics ?" I took as half joking, not to advocate in favor of the well known historically racist eugenics efforts. Not all historical eugenic theories were based on a theory of races. I'd say Trotsky's discussion of eugenics is not racist in the sense of espousing a theory of human races as the basis for making eugenics decisions. There is some ignorance of how racist the American history and situation was in that he looks to the US to lead in eugenics, fails to understand that US racism would likely mare any eugenics program here. Although , he does pose it as a Soviet America, which would mean there had been a world historic defeat of racism in the US as a premise to a Soviet America. ^^^^ What posts are you referring to? ^^^^^ CB: Shane's posts on this thread and through the years. ^^^^^^^ The striving to create better people is racist. The eugenics movement is inherent racist. WL. ^^^^^ CB: I can't say that I subscribe to any "old" eugenics theories, but not all eugenics theories are based on the notion that there are better and lesser races. Today there is a potential for genetic engineering. If there are forms of genetically based blindness from birth, and there is discovered a way to prevent that genetically based blindness, to prevent it would not be racist or a bad thing in general. Some forms of cancer, heart disease and other pretty much universally recognized diseased conditions have genetic components to their etiologies. Nothing wrong with curing these through genetic engineering The notiion that it is preferable to be sighted than blind does not entail a notion that the sighted and blind constitute two different races. Same with cancered or not cancered , or heart diseased or not heart diseased. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
