ApostateAbe
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Anti-abortion activists have a small library of misquotes and hyperbole about the founder of Planned Parenthood: Margaret Sanger. The falsehoods are based in part on correct historical fact. Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Anti-abortion activists take this as evidence that Margaret Sanger therefore wanted to use abortion to exterminate the African race in America. As usual, the truth is more nuanced. Eugenics in early 20th century America was an alternative to the more hateful and more extreme racist conservatism, as eugenecists commonly argued that good genes and bad genes are apparently distributed among all races, so it would be better to discriminate WITHIN each race, though some races may have more bad genes than others.
This argument, though generally sound, would seem to break down with the more extreme races, where the distributions are so far away from whites that the most extreme racial prejudice comes off as fully grounded in the data, and this seems to be the case with the native people of Australia. The average IQ of Australian Aboriginals is estimated to be the lowest among all races in the world, at about 60, or 2 and 2/3 standard deviations below the average white IQ and ten IQ points below the standard upper limit of mental retardation. Richard Lynn, combining the results of 17 studies, arrived at a median value of 61 IQ (The Global Bell Curve, 2008). The overlap with whites exists, as it must, but it is exceptionally small. Margaret Sanger broke her usual pattern of racial magnanimity and talked about Australian Aboriginals with exceptional hate.
She called the people "the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets." Relevantly, this opinion of the people was not controversial at the time. It seemed to follow directly from the agreed facts and evolutionary theory of the time: she goes as far as to classify them as a "species of the human family" rather than "race of the human species," but polygenism (belief that different races became the human species seperately) was a somewhat common scientific belief.
This particular racial hatred of Margaret Sanger can be best understood also in the context of her feminism. There may be doubt about whether or not sexual crime among Aboriginals was truly common in her time as reported, but there is no doubt that it remains especially common today, as seen in this Australian parliament e-brief titled, "Measuring domestic violence and sexual assault against women." The following findings are from the executive summary and more detail can be found in the full report. The values should be considered in the context of an Aboriginal population of about 500,000 in 2004.
These are staggering and frightening numbers. The "Gordon Report" attempted to motivate action through anecdotal examples, taken to be representative of the horrifying state of the culture, including:
As uncomfortable as this thought may be, it is possible that the perspective of Margaret Sanger about the native people of Australia was closer to the mark than the common modern perspective that races do not biologically exist and the various relative ills of the people are attributable entirely to the unfortunate events leading up to it (white colonialism, etc.). Even if there is only a small possibility, it is a sufficiently strong possibility that the science of genetics will conclusively prove that the genes for intelligence, violent behavior and sexual impulse control are unequally distributed among the races, and, when that genetic discovery happens, we had best be prepared, as white supremacists are otherwise likely to lay sole claim to this science. The history of colonial Australia, up until the early 20th century, was a pattern of genocide against the aboriginal people, and this fits the general pattern of the world. The modern period should be considered an aberration, at best, and not likely to last long. Nobody is born racist, but it is much easier for people to learn racism than to learn equality. Learning racism is easier still when the facts are fully behind it, and the native Australians will likely be among the first victims of whites when racism comes to be commonly relearned.
This argument, though generally sound, would seem to break down with the more extreme races, where the distributions are so far away from whites that the most extreme racial prejudice comes off as fully grounded in the data, and this seems to be the case with the native people of Australia. The average IQ of Australian Aboriginals is estimated to be the lowest among all races in the world, at about 60, or 2 and 2/3 standard deviations below the average white IQ and ten IQ points below the standard upper limit of mental retardation. Richard Lynn, combining the results of 17 studies, arrived at a median value of 61 IQ (The Global Bell Curve, 2008). The overlap with whites exists, as it must, but it is exceptionally small. Margaret Sanger broke her usual pattern of racial magnanimity and talked about Australian Aboriginals with exceptional hate.
It is said a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. The lower down in the scale of human development we go the less sexual control we find. It is said that the aboriginal Australian, the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets. According to one writer, the rapist has just enough brain development to raise him above the animal, but like the animal, when in heat knows no law except nature which impels him to procreate whatever the result. Every normal man and Woman has the power to control and direct his sexual impulse. Men and women who have it in control and constantly use their brain cells in thinking deeply, are never sensual.
She called the people "the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets." Relevantly, this opinion of the people was not controversial at the time. It seemed to follow directly from the agreed facts and evolutionary theory of the time: she goes as far as to classify them as a "species of the human family" rather than "race of the human species," but polygenism (belief that different races became the human species seperately) was a somewhat common scientific belief.
This particular racial hatred of Margaret Sanger can be best understood also in the context of her feminism. There may be doubt about whether or not sexual crime among Aboriginals was truly common in her time as reported, but there is no doubt that it remains especially common today, as seen in this Australian parliament e-brief titled, "Measuring domestic violence and sexual assault against women." The following findings are from the executive summary and more detail can be found in the full report. The values should be considered in the context of an Aboriginal population of about 500,000 in 2004.
Family violence among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, AIHW [Australian Institute of Health and Welfare] 2006, presents information on the extent of violence (in particular family violence) in the Indigenous population, using existing surveys and administrative data collections. Information is presented on the prevalence of violence, associated harm and services for victims of violence, as well as on those in contact with the criminal justice system.
- In 2003-04, 7950 Indigenous females sought refuge from the Supported Accommodation Assistance program (SAAP) to escape family violence.
- Indigenous females were 13 times more likely to seek SAAP assistance as non-Indigenous females.
- In 2003-04, there were 4500 hospitalisations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons due to assault in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory combined.
- Indigenous females were 35 times as likely to be hospitalised due to family violence-related assaults as other Australian females.
- For Indigenous females, about one in two hospitalisations for assault (50 per cent) were related to family violence compared to one in five for males.
- Most hospitalisations for family violence-related assault for females were a result of spouse or partner violence (82 per cent) compared to 38 per cent among males.
- Between 2000 and 2004, there were 150 deaths due to assault among Indigenous Australians in the four jurisdictions.
- Indigenous females were nearly ten times more likely to die due to assault as non-Indigenous females.
These are staggering and frightening numbers. The "Gordon Report" attempted to motivate action through anecdotal examples, taken to be representative of the horrifying state of the culture, including:
The goodwill and good intentions of individual government agencies is not, and it is suggested will never be, sufficient to respond to the problems that the Inquiry has identified. The level of disadvantage in some Aboriginal communities is such that all children must be considered to be at risk. In one remote Aboriginal community, with approximately 300 residents, an Aboriginal woman talking to the Inquiry said that she occasionally saw little girls aged around five playing without supervision. She told them to 'go home, go home now, you'll be raped'. The idea that in a country like Australia, children in their own small communities can be so endangered is a concept so frightening that the full force of the government's authority must be brought to bear so that Aboriginal children in WA [Western Australia] can be safe in their communities.
As uncomfortable as this thought may be, it is possible that the perspective of Margaret Sanger about the native people of Australia was closer to the mark than the common modern perspective that races do not biologically exist and the various relative ills of the people are attributable entirely to the unfortunate events leading up to it (white colonialism, etc.). Even if there is only a small possibility, it is a sufficiently strong possibility that the science of genetics will conclusively prove that the genes for intelligence, violent behavior and sexual impulse control are unequally distributed among the races, and, when that genetic discovery happens, we had best be prepared, as white supremacists are otherwise likely to lay sole claim to this science. The history of colonial Australia, up until the early 20th century, was a pattern of genocide against the aboriginal people, and this fits the general pattern of the world. The modern period should be considered an aberration, at best, and not likely to last long. Nobody is born racist, but it is much easier for people to learn racism than to learn equality. Learning racism is easier still when the facts are fully behind it, and the native Australians will likely be among the first victims of whites when racism comes to be commonly relearned.
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