The concept emerged during the second world war when Adolf Hitler launched a program to 'breed' Aryan supermen. Hitler's idea gave birth to a state-sanction 'racial hygiene' program that involved purging 'mongrel' human characteristics in order to get a Nietzsche Übermensch.
Eugenics was widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century. Famous Eugenics advocates dating as far back as 1910 were Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, Margaret Sanger, Alexander Graham Bell, and the Darwin brothers.
And by 1940, Yale University?
Yale offered to evacuate the kids of Oxford University staff in 1940. The motive clouded in the possibility that a sinister Eugenics plan was at the root of the exodus.
Eugenics advocates at the university may have extended the invitation because they planned to repopulate a holocaust in Britain with a replacement race of intellectually superior children.
The 'Yale Faculty Committee for Receiving Oxford and Cambridge University Children' invited and received 125 Oxford kids and 35 mothers. The group sailed the SS Antonia from Liverpool to New Haven, CT on 8 July 1940.
Gaddis Smith, Emeritus Professor of History at Yale, describes Yale's president James Angell, who ruled in 1937, as 'a fanatic eugenicist in the worst meaning of that word.' And that once the group arrived, there was a 'concern' that one of the mothers was Jewish.
How do 'intellectually superior' liberals advocate such sinister and freakish ideas? Oh, they think they're superior, remember.
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