jmorphy88 - You pretend like there's no danger here, but we're short on examples of "scientific" evidence being used as a justification for killing off or harmi

jmorphy88 - You pretend like there's no danger here, but we're short on examples of "scientific" evidence being used as a justification for killing off or harming huge portions of populations, even here in the US. The attempt to paint racialized theories of intelligence as objective scientific inquiries lacking in prejudice is also not new, and those exact theories whose inquiry was justified in this exactly same way ("you moralizing buffoons, we're doing science!") have been used to justify undeniable evil in the past, even in this country. So yeah, jeer. But eugenics sterilization campaigns in the 50's had this origin and were Fucking Evil. No other word is fitting for forced sterilization, and those campaigns were justified by "science" that "debunked" people who were overly-"moralizing" societal planning. Also, the original parent isn't even doing the latest rhetorical trick of not talking about races but about "demarcated populations" or "collections of phenotypes". He specifically mentions "Africans". So, no, this isn't about defending Science. This is about using science to defend overtly and obviously unscientific bigotry.