Eugenics Backer Causes Stir in Tenn. Race

[julialnyc]

Eugenics Backer Causes Stir in Tenn. Race

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Republican congressional candidate James L. Hart acknowledges that he is an "intellectual outlaw."



He is an unapologetic supporter of eugenics, the phony science that resulted in thousands of sterilizations in an attempt to purify the white race. He believes the country will look "like one big Detroit" if it doesn't eliminate welfare and immigration. He believes that if blacks were integrated centuries ago, the automobile never would have been invented.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040803/ap_on_el_ho/eugenics_candidate

[fob]

1. I wonder what this dickbag says about George Washington Carver

who worked tirelessly to invent uses for the peanuts (like explosives for just one) that allowed southern farmers the chance to rotate their crops and keep their soil viable instead of letting it lie fallow (ie no crop = no cash) until the life giving nutrients were restored. That and many other contributions by this one black man.

james hart, I call BULLSHIT on you!

[julialnyc]

2. he is disgusting!!!

[ellie]

3. I read this crap

and get really sad. It's 2004 for God's sake and people still are spewing this hate? Look how far we have come! Not! At least he isn't being lauded as a hero of GOP and they are trying to stop him, which is encouraging.

[julialnyc]

4. Very sad :(

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"Much of Hart's platform revolves around eugenics, which arose in the early 20th century as a pseudoscientific movement to solve social problems by preventing the "unfit" from having children. It inspired 33 states to pass laws that allowed the sterilization of some 65,000 people, and Nazi Germany used the U.S. examples to justify programs that sterilized and killed millions."

[bobbieinok]

10. remember Bush family had strong ties to eugenics movement

[julialnyc]

15. really? do you have a link?

[bobbieinok]

18. I'll look for one....it's in one of the long 'exposes' of the Bush family

[bobbieinok]

12. M Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, has been accused

of being a follower of the eugenics movement.

See Planned Parenthood's discussion of this...

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about/thisispp/sanger.html

[julialnyc]

5. One twisted guy!!!

<snip>

"Hart, a 60-year-old real estate agent, knows his views on eugenics are far from the mainstream and viewed as racist by most people.



He insists his beliefs have nothing to do with racism and everything to do with "favored races" from Europe and Asia and "less-favored races" from Africa. To achieve his goal of a country populated by "favored races," Hart proposes eliminating both welfare and immigration.



"If an individual demonstrates the ability to produce and contribute to society, he or she would be encouraged to have more children. People on welfare would not," Hart said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press."

[afraid_of_the_dark]

6. What is wrong with this guy?

Intellectual outlaw, my ass. I just can't believe that he actually believes the vileness that is spewing out of his mouth!

[TNDemo]

7. I have never heard of this guy.

Apparently he is from the northwest corner of the state. Hope he loses and never gets near Nashville.

[julialnyc]

8. There is no one running against him in the primary!

N/T

[Book Lover]

9. Yeah, that big tent's a b*tch, eh?

The repukes didn't field a lucid candidate because the Dem seat is safe (good, BTW), so this jackass saunters in and gets on the ballot?! Good; let's hope incompetence brings down the rest of the party!

[julialnyc]

14. Are you sure it's safe?

I'm sure you're right, but sometimes people vote blindly along party lines without knowing much about the person. Can you imagine if this sorry excuse of a person got in!

[Book Lover]

17. According to the rest of the article, it is

But I have asked a friend who lives there for his scoop.

[Endangered Specie]

11. OK, its time to officially rename the GOP to NSDAP

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Does his platform advocate government-sponsored forced sterilization?

[julialnyc]

16. I heard he tried to pull it off in Ohio

before he went to TN