Flavor Of The Weak: The New War On The Sick

At the turn of the century and well into the mid 1900’s there were a number of elites that considered themselves the ruling class and had plans to deal with those individuals that they did not agree with or identified with. In a time of class warfare there is always a division where a certain group of people are somehow under the impression that they are superior. As I was studying the history of the United States dating back 100 years I noticed another interesting fact about Woodrow Wilson.

His elitist stance had given way to the use of Eugenics to eliminate types of people that were considered undesirables. Anymore when one has to search the internet for Eugenics stories in America you have to go through the delicate word salad that makes it palatable for researchers because no one wants to admit that while we called ourselves a country that believed in human rights we all secretly had plans for those we felt deserved to be eliminated from the gene pool. Surprisingly the reason for the eugenics programs again was to insure that resources would be used by those who would benefit society. Those who were thought to be a burden were conveniently removed.

In researching President Woodrow Wilson’s support for eugenic directives prior to 1913, I was surprised how little there actually was to find.

When Wilson was Governor of New Jersey his support of Eugenics programs should have been fair warning about the type of individual he was. On April 21st, 1911 just two years before becoming President Wilson passed into law an act to authorize and provide for the “sterilization of feeble-minded (including idiots, imbeciles and morons), epileptics, rapists, certain criminals and other defectives.” It was overturned by the New Jersey Supreme Court on November 18, 1913.

Many attitudes about culling the undesirables were fomented during World War I. One admirer of the Eugenics programs in the United States was a young Adolf Hitler.

Much of Hitler’s attitudes towards the nation-state, war, eugenics, race superiority, community and obligation came from his participation in the First World War, where 6,000 men died every day. Contrast that with the 3,000 that died in one day in the U.S. on 9/11, but not day after day for four years. Miraculously Hitler fought heroically, survived, and did it without complaint for his nation; the same that we have always expected of our own soldiers.

When Hitler returned from war however he despised those who would not fight for their country. When he left the hospital after losing his eyesight from poisonous gas for a period of time, “He claimed that ‘nearly every clerk was a Jew and nearly every Jew was a clerk.’” In his mind, the Jews were traitors to the nation. This festered in his mind for the next twenty-five years leading up to the World War Two—an insatiable hatred for Jews were easily stereotyped as such and deserving of punishment—the supreme punishment.

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