Your question is this: How did the Atlanticist consensus regarding eugenics and social hierarchy intellectually transform into egalitarianism?
The earliest date you cite is 1939. It was not a 3 or 10 year process. The way to answer this question is to go back to 1924 an examine the influence of the press. Look at the first legal orders to rescind segregation and track the biographies of each of those men.
Racism failed politically first before it became scientifically unpopular. The mainstream view of race in 1924 was Nordicism as opposed to Semitism or Mediterranean immigration. The Black Question was entirely irrelevant since there had been no increase or decrease in that population. It was Jews and Catholics that were the subject of racial ideology -- that was the political struggle.
The fact that we look back and think of blacks as the centerpiece of the struggle is a deliberate retcon to marshal black political power by the Northern Democrats to punish and overthrow their Southern Dixiecrat competitors. A proxy war. On an elite level, the question was settled in the 1940s, and the focus on blacks in the 50s and 60s was a result of that shift, not the cause of it.
Writing an essay on the shift from eugenics to egalitarianism without mentioning antisemitism or Catholicism even once is just not sufficient for the task.
I would accept many of the points made here and perhaps the framing of the questions was too ambitious given the brief digital essay format. The subject is certainly worthwhile of a book at least, and there are some that track the phenomenon highlighted here. I primarily wanted to elaborate/articulate a few of the key figures, ideas, documents, institutions which constituted early UN era “egalitarianism” among the Anglo-American establishment.
An excellent essay. I'm glad to live to see a time when we can again question the reality of racial issues. It's long over due to stop the fetishization of non-white peoples and their cultures and examine those cultures and peoples as clearly as we are able.
Eugenics are reality; if we can breed dogs and cows and kitty cats, we can breed people. Race, as extant, is natural selection performing a eugenics plan by its own rules. It may now be time, with an eye toward the long term survival of our portion of the human race, to assert eugenicist programs to clean out the human barn stall of the crap.
Your question is this: How did the Atlanticist consensus regarding eugenics and social hierarchy intellectually transform into egalitarianism?
The earliest date you cite is 1939. It was not a 3 or 10 year process. The way to answer this question is to go back to 1924 an examine the influence of the press. Look at the first legal orders to rescind segregation and track the biographies of each of those men.
Racism failed politically first before it became scientifically unpopular. The mainstream view of race in 1924 was Nordicism as opposed to Semitism or Mediterranean immigration. The Black Question was entirely irrelevant since there had been no increase or decrease in that population. It was Jews and Catholics that were the subject of racial ideology -- that was the political struggle.
The fact that we look back and think of blacks as the centerpiece of the struggle is a deliberate retcon to marshal black political power by the Northern Democrats to punish and overthrow their Southern Dixiecrat competitors. A proxy war. On an elite level, the question was settled in the 1940s, and the focus on blacks in the 50s and 60s was a result of that shift, not the cause of it.
Writing an essay on the shift from eugenics to egalitarianism without mentioning antisemitism or Catholicism even once is just not sufficient for the task.
I would accept many of the points made here and perhaps the framing of the questions was too ambitious given the brief digital essay format. The subject is certainly worthwhile of a book at least, and there are some that track the phenomenon highlighted here. I primarily wanted to elaborate/articulate a few of the key figures, ideas, documents, institutions which constituted early UN era “egalitarianism” among the Anglo-American establishment.
An excellent essay. I'm glad to live to see a time when we can again question the reality of racial issues. It's long over due to stop the fetishization of non-white peoples and their cultures and examine those cultures and peoples as clearly as we are able.
Eugenics are reality; if we can breed dogs and cows and kitty cats, we can breed people. Race, as extant, is natural selection performing a eugenics plan by its own rules. It may now be time, with an eye toward the long term survival of our portion of the human race, to assert eugenicist programs to clean out the human barn stall of the crap.