Tuesday, August 14, 2012

...in Darwin's world / shit don't matter

The sudden change in the poem, from references to God smiling over the creation of people, thus pronouncing that Black is Beautiful, occurs when we read:


in Darwin’s world
shit don’t matter.
If the fittest
must survive,
Cull’n some dumb coons
is a positive good.


As killing Jews was a positive good in Nazi Germany, it follows that a society based on the same philosophy would have no problem killing "some dumb coons." 
 
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany was released in 2004 (paperback edition in 2006) with Palgrave Macmillan in New York, a major publisher of historical scholarship.
 
"Richard Weikart's outstanding book shows in sober and convincing detail how Darwinist thinkers in Germany had developed an amoral attitude to human society by the time of the First World War, in which the supposed good of the race was applied as the sole criterion of public policy and 'racial hygiene'. Without over-simplifying the lines that connected this body of thought to Hitler, he demonstrates with chilling clarity how policies such as infanticide, assisted suicide, marriage prohibitions and much else were being proposed for those considered racially or eugenically inferior by a variety of Darwinist writers and scientists, providing Hitler and the Nazis with a scientific justification for the policies they pursued once they came to power." -- Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge, and author of The Coming of the Third Reich

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