The historical slander against classical liberals (as opposed to “progressives) continues.
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The historical slander against classical liberals (as opposed to “progressives) continues.
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The eugenics chapter of Goldberg’s book is one of the more interesting ones. I never understood the how deep the roots of this kind of racism went until I read it.
French revolutionaries declared “liberty, equality, fraternity.” But American revolutionaries wanted to make their government workable and durable despite the inequalities between peoples. Equality of opportunity and equality under the law are both just. But declaring a false equality of aptitude or enforcing an equality of outcome are both unjust.
The history of the eugenics movement is at least mildly interesting. When leftists accuse the right of racism without confronting their own hidden inner views of differences in innate aptitude between populatin groups, they become hypocrites.
The question becomes more than academic in Europe, where native European populations are dying out from low rates of childbirth. Europeans are not being replaced adequately by immigration, but even where immigration provides a replacement, it is not an equal replacement. In other words, the newcomers are not up to the challenges which the diminishing population of natives is leaving for them.