Please refer to The New Confederacy Part 1
https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-new-confederacy-collectivist-action.html
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The New Confederacy
Part 2
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. . .The National Human Genome Research Institute offers the following bullet points concerning the eugenics movement:
"Eugenics is the scientifically inaccurate theory that humans can be improved through selective breeding of populations.
Eugenicists believe in a prejudiced and incorrect understanding of Mendellian genetics that claimed abstract human qualities, e.g. intelligence and social behaviors, are inherited in a simple fashion.
The implementation of eugenics practices has caused widespread harm, particularly to populations that are marginalized.
Eugenics is not a fringe movement. Starting in the late 1800s, leaders and intellectuals worldwide perpetuated eugenic beliefs and policies based on common racist and xenophobic attitudes. Many of these beliefs and policies still exist in the United States."(2)
Famous American advocates of eugenics at the turn of the 20th century included Jack London, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, Madison Grant and President Theodore Roosevelt and more than a few prominent African Americans.
There is a credible case to be made that not only did eugenics represents a continuation of the myth of white supremacy but also the philosophical foundation for what would emerge in the 20th century as fascism. Adolph Hitler is quoted as saying that
Madison Grant's highly popular book of the time, The Passing of the Great Race, was "my bible".
Employing 'social Darwinism' eugenicists attributed most class and racial oppression to biological deficiencies, . Therefore, even the 'white' poor's poverty and powerlessness was due to biological inferiority, not capitalist exploitation.
The primary method eugenicists offer to 'cleanse' the world of these ‘feeble minded-and-bodied', ‘moronic’, 'bottom feeders’, was sterilization. Consequently, between WW1 and the early 1970s, over a hundred thousand Americans were sterilized against their will; disproportionately, but not exclusively, African American* and indigenous people.( Worldwide numbers were much higher.) During the same period at least 32 U.S. states passed laws restricting reproduction (of certain populations), and outlawed'interracial' marriages, all upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.. The latter laws were not officially overturned until 1967, in the "Loving vs Virginia" S.C.case.
During the same period when:
white domestic terrorism, and lynching were, once again, raging across the U.S.
25,000 Klan members (in full regalia!) marched in Washington, D.C.
'Sundown towns’(3) proliferated in the South and the North.
prosperous black communities were violently destroyed, and their residents murdered by mobs in Rosewood, Florida Tulsa, Oklahoma and scores of other cities.
. . .German nazis were assiduously studying, up close, the American system of Jim Crow, aka, racial segregation or American apartheid, esp., its ‘legal fiction’.
In his book, Hitler's American Model, the United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, James Q. Whitman writes:
"German praise for American practices, already found in Hitler's Mein Kampf was continuous throughout the 1930s, and the most radical nazi lawyers were eager advocates of the use of American models. . .Both American citizenship and anti-miscegenation laws proved directly relevant to the two principal Nuremberg Laws - the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law.
The ultimate, ugly irony is that when nazis rejected American practices, it was not because they found them too enlightened, but too harsh."(4)
Meanwhile, throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries the 'United Daughters of the (old) Confederacy were promoting the kkk. The UFC saw the Klan as true heroes of the "war of Northern aggression" and included them in increasingly popular, white supremacist interpretations of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
After the emergence of the post- WW2 Civil Rights Movement a resurgent klan developed to counter the Civil Rights Movement and intimidate its advocates, both Blacks and Whites. It opposed desegregation and affirmative action as 'communist plots' to undermine the 'American Way'. The terrorist group openly allied with neo-nazi formations. Further alliances of fascists and white supremacists and 'anti-federal' groups such as Sovereign Citizens and Posse Comitatus would continue to blur the lines between them to be almost indistinguishable.
The inherent anticommunism of white supremacist/nationalist formations cannot be understated. The two main reasons usually cited by these groups for opposing desegregation and social justice, among other things, was/is that they represent a global conspiracy to “overthrow capitalism and implement communism”. . .(to be continued)
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