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Support for eugenics never really went away, but this is how it's becoming mainstream...must read
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/eugenics-ucl-toby-young-conference-how-it-became-mainstream-a8154316.html<snip>
News broke today that secret eugenics conferences had been held at UCL
I was both horrified and unsurprised to discover that Toby Young (who briefly, yet for too long, held influential office on the board of the Office for Students) wasn’t kidding when he said he supported “progressive eugenics”. Always, as the aphorism has it, listen when people tell you who they are.
Young, a media irritant for decades, has since protested that his noxious views on just about everything have been taken “out of context”, and asked for 50,000 tweets to be taken into consideration.
As far as eugenics go, however, he is bang to rights: an investigation by the London Student newspaper has highlighted his attendance last year at an invitation-only, pro-eugenics conference, which has been held under the noses of London’s academic community since 2015.
The roots of the London Conference on Intelligence (ironically named for a gathering so devoted to unscientific nonsense) are long, and ugly. Their history implicates both political right and left, and swathes of our “great and good”, from HG Wells to Churchill.
The idea of deliberately “improving” the human race is not new: Plato in 381BC considered the desirability of “selective breeding” for the ruling elite. The philosopher imagined a kind of royal key party, where the chosen few would be allocated “breeding partners” by ballot. The children judged the best specimens would then be communally reared, whilst the rest would be destroyed.
I don’t need to catalogue the horrific extremes to which the Nazis took eugenics – the millions of Jews, gay men and lesbians, Roma and Sinti, people of colour, intellectuals and the mentally and physically disabled who were tortured and killed.
This should have been an indelible stain on humanity, so deep and dark it prevented us from ever again treading this bloody road. This was epitomised by the slogan “Never Again” – but in fact, eugenics never went away.
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Long but well worth the read
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Thanks 
More about him:
In 2012 Young wrote an article criticising the emphasis on "inclusion" in state schools.[42] Young said "Inclusive. It’s one of those ghastly, politically correct words that have survived the demise of New Labour. Schools have got to be “inclusive” these days. That means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the school library...", which some saw as an attack on including disabled children in mainstream education, as well as racism. He denied this charge, saying he was only referring to "dumbing down".[43]
In 2015, Young wrote an article for the Australian magazine Quadrant entitled "The fall of meritocracy". In it he advocated what he termed "progressive eugenics". Young proposed that when the technology for genetically engineered intelligence is practical it should be allowable for a decision to be made by poor parents with low IQs over which embryos should be allowed to develop using intelligence as a marker. "It could help to address the problem of flat-lining inter-generational social mobility", he wrote.[52][53]
Young has come under criticism for comments he made on Twitter, most of which were deleted upon his appointment to the Board of the Office for Students. Young claimed to have posted more than 56,000 tweets, of which 8,439 remain.[60]
These included what a London Evening Standard editorial called "an obsession with commenting on the anatomy of women in the public eye".[61] He referred on Twitter to the cleavage of unnamed female MPs sitting behind Ed Miliband in the Commons in 2011 and 2012. When later challenged by Stella Creasy on Newsnight he said of the second such incident: "It wasn’t my proudest moment".[62][63] Other remarks included homophobic slurs, including a claim that George Clooney is "as queer as a coot".[64]
One tweet by Young was in response to a BBC Comic Relief appeal in 2009 for starving Kenyan children.[65] During the broadcast, a Twitter user commented that she had "gone through about 5 boxes of kleenex" whilst watching. Toby Young replied: "Me too, I havn't [sic] wanked so much in ages".[47] He has expressed remorse for his "politically incorrect" tweets.[66]
These included what a London Evening Standard editorial called "an obsession with commenting on the anatomy of women in the public eye".[61] He referred on Twitter to the cleavage of unnamed female MPs sitting behind Ed Miliband in the Commons in 2011 and 2012. When later challenged by Stella Creasy on Newsnight he said of the second such incident: "It wasn’t my proudest moment".[62][63] Other remarks included homophobic slurs, including a claim that George Clooney is "as queer as a coot".[64]
One tweet by Young was in response to a BBC Comic Relief appeal in 2009 for starving Kenyan children.[65] During the broadcast, a Twitter user commented that she had "gone through about 5 boxes of kleenex" whilst watching. Toby Young replied: "Me too, I havn't [sic] wanked so much in ages".[47] He has expressed remorse for his "politically incorrect" tweets.[66]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Young
And intellectual racists everywhere since difference was noted...It is never forgotten. When I learned of this white supremacists school of thought..all I could ask myself then, was, when will this loud advocating for a skin color cease? I had seen all cultures and races in full evolutionary splendor trying our best to kill each other in vicious style and with lethal munitions. Absolutely NO merit to white skin and DNA as a factor in proving white human intelligence supremacy. It still is a fallacy. Look to 1600 for proof of that fact..
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As these times show, not yet. Good old Teddy R and Margaret Sanger were adherents to this tribal / racial philosophy. It seems we'll never learn🤐😎
