RACE SUICIDE: Eternal Fear That 'Higher Races Will Be Replaced By Lesser People'
-The Eternal Fear of “Race Suicide.”- Political leaders, social reformers and mass killers have panicked throughout history that the white race will be overwhelmed by the high birth rates of lesser peoples. Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor, Univ. of Pa., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 22, 2019. ~ So here’s a quick quiz. Who said, “Prevent the higher races from losing their nobler traits and from being overwhelmed by the lower races,” and when did he say it? If you guessed Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers or Brenton Tarrant, the 28-year-old who murdered 50 people in New Zealand week before last, you’re wrong. The correct answer is Theodore Roosevelt, who made this remark in 1895 — just six years before he became president of the United States.
And that’s also the key element that’s been missing from the reaction to the New Zealand massacre, which has focused mostly on contemporary racism and President Donald Trump. In the manifesto that Tarrant released, he cited Mr. Trump as a “symbol of white identity and purpose.” Then the blogosphere exploded in predictably polarized fashion, with one side citing Mr. Trump’s own arguably racist statements and the other dismissing Tarrant as a raving madman.
It’s fair to ask how Mr. Trump’s behavior has fueled the rise of white nationalism, both at home and abroad. But it also diverts us from a deeper historical truth. Put simply, the fear of being flooded by foreign hordes is baked into our national DNA. And it all starts with the question of fertility. So did Tarrant’s manifesto. Its first sentence was “It’s the birthrates,” and he repeated the phrase three times. He entitled his document “The Great Replacement,” which nodded to a French philosopher’s 2012 book about declining white fertility around the world.
But the roots of this anxiety lie in the United States, where Roosevelt and his generation made it a centerpiece of their politics. Starting in the 1880s, with the birth of the modern social sciences, researchers showed that immigrant women bore more children than native-born ones. That raised the specter of what sociologist E.A. Ross labeled “race suicide,” a term eagerly adopted by Roosevelt when he reached the White House. “If all our nice friends in Beacon Street, and Newport, and Fifth Avenue, and Philadelphia, have one child, or no child at all, while all the Finnegans, Hooligans, Antonios, Mandelbaums and Rabinskis have eight, or nine, or 10 — it’s simply a question of the multiplication table,” Roosevelt told a friend. “How are you going to get away from it?”
The answer was to persuade native-born women to have more babies and to discourage immigrants from doing the same. Roosevelt reserved special ire for “cold and selfish” white women who refused to procreate, thereby abandoning their “duty” to the race. Roosevelt also opposed birth control, which would give them yet another tool for avoiding childbirth. But other reformers of the era promoted birth control as a way of limiting population growth among immigrants and “degenerates,” the era’s catch-all phrase for anyone deemed unworthy of parenthood. “More children from the fit, less from the unfit — that is the chief issue of birth control,” declared Margaret Sanger, the era’s leading birth control advocate..Read More, https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2019/03/24/The-eternal-fear-of-race-suicide/stories/201903240066
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NIH, The Eugenics Movement (1907-1939) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2757926/
- "Better Babies" contests were sponsored during the height of the American Eugenics Movement (1907-1939)
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