"Eugenics for My Hispanic People"

[Utopian]

I am a Mexican-American, born in the United States, but parents born in Mexico. I have a very strong interest in science, technology, philosophy, politics, classical music, and secular agnostic lifestyles. Well, I've been studying the science of eugenics for a while. I was taught by the mainstream American media that eugenics was something that only "evil White people do" as a means of "oppressing minorities" and this should be no surprise since "Whites are the lowest and most evil race on the planet."

Well, I instinctually saw a very irrational and un-objective and un-scientific media analysis of this. It just naturally occurred to me that if the media should discuss eugenics, they should be 100% scientific and rational about it. It seemed to me that the mainstream media elites shared an extremely strong personal political ideology that took great precedence over unbiased/objective coverage of world events. So, I turned to the internet for information and came across the website of http://www.neoeugenics.com/

From this site, I learned that eugenics was indeed not just “an evil Whitey thing” that was unscientific. First of all, “eugenics” means the bettering of genes and nothing more. It does not specify how genes are going to be improved or what genes are more important than others. Second, many different people have practiced some form of eugenics. In the early Twentieth Century, most of Europe had eugenics laws, at least 30 States in America did, Japan and Israel did, and nations in South America did as well. Going further back in history, ancient Spartans used to practice eugenics to breed stronger soldiers. Also, Jews have practiced eugenics for the thousands of years. And today, India, China, and Israel have national eugenics laws.

So, any race, ethnic group, or culture can apply eugenics to improve themselves. And each race, ethnic group, or culture can decide what genes they value and which methods they want to go about to improve these very genes. Eugenics is not genocide by definition, as the media lies about, just like Health Care does not imply all people with AIDS will be thrown in gas chambers. Health Care is simply the belief in improving health, and eugenics is simply the belief in improving genes, and there are many ways to go about this, from the very subtle to the very “Draconian.” Again, each race, ethnicity, culture, or nation decides for themselves what methods to use and what genes to promote.

The site of http://www.neoeugenics.com/ is actually an archive of research on evolutionary psychology, behavioral genetics, and psychometrics. The author uses the research to put forth an argument that promoting certain genes would create a better society. Here are some examples:

- The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwinism: http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/robot.htm Here, research shows that most humans are genetically built to be irrational and don’t have the ability to engage in deep psychological introspection and to look at their emotions and behaviors objectively. The author wants to thus increase the frequency of genes that does allow for rational behavior.

- Linda S. Gottfredson on intelligence: http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/LSG.htm
The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen: http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/ARJtribute.htm
Mainstream Science on Intelligence: A '94 Wall Street Journal

http://forums.hypography.com/biology...ic-people.html

[Grimr]

Somebody that describes Eugenics as a 'bettering of genes', has about as much authority upon the subject as a crackwhore.

[Janus]

Originally Posted by Grimr

Somebody that describes Eugenics as a 'bettering of genes'...

It is a "bettering of genes".