Bad As It Is Neo-Eugenics Is The Soft Edge Of Neo-Nazism

My looking at the resurgence of neo-eugenics is an outgrowth of my original investigation of the biological determinism I was rather shocked to see on blogs of the alleged left more than a decade ago.  All forms of determinism are obviously incompatible with democracy, in any form which is combined with the promotion of biological inequality they are a serious danger to it.  Any informed, rational left would reject all forms of biological determinism as demonstrably leading to horrific inequality and violence, but all too many would-be lefties buy into it as either "science" or as not dangerous since we are assumed to be protected by the U.S. Constitution or whatever other English language constitution which leads to our being lulled into not taking it seriously.  I seriously believe a lot of people assume the English language is some kind of protection against that, that we're safe as long as people aren't saying things with a bad Hollywood German accent.

The time I've spent on the history and nature of eugenics, before, during and after the second world war led me to the conclusion that whenever the Darwinian theory of natural selection is assumed to be a real and understood force of nature it will lead to a belief that our lives are determined by the physical facts of genetic inheritance and that there is a real, natural hierarchy of human valuation, ultimately in terms of economic value and social and political utility.  That is inevitable, at least in a dangerously large number of scientists and those who hold similar beliefs.  The absolute proof of that is found in the history of Darwinism, of which eugenics was an immediate result and a continuing feature of biological and genetic science as the continued eugenics beliefs of such eminent scientists as R. A Fisher, Francis Crick, Arthur Jensen (social sciences are especially prone to holding eugenics beliefs), Richard Dawkins, and even in the outrageous promotion of eugenics policy by a host of other eminent scientists such as the overt racist and Nobel Laureate William Shockley on the right and the double Nobel recipient Linus Pauling on the would-be left.  

Even the most absolutely stunning events of the 1930s and 40s when the Nazis and others demonstrated how seriously dangerous a belief in eugenics and a scientifically conducted imposition of the assumptions of natural selection in political, legal, medical and social life could become didn't lead such men of science to look hard at either the assumptions of eugenics or the theory on which all of it is based, Darwinian Natural Selection.  In fact, with the neo-Darwinian synthesis of Natural Selection with the pre-war conception of geneticss, I would think their belief in the real efficacy of eugenics as science was probably far stronger and assumed to be a settled fact.  

At the same time I was looking into that clean-nailed, academic form of turning people into biological units to be assigned economic and social value and utility I have also looked at the dirty, grimy show-biz, media practice of doing the same thing in pornography.  I've come to see that pornography is, also a promotion of the opposite of egalitarian democracy.  In its straight form that inequality is along the most accustomed of all lines, devaluing women and turning them into objects for the use of men.   That form of inequality is so ingrained in societies around the world, from the extreme theocracies of places such as Saudi Arabia to the most materialist-atheist of all countries such as North Korea and liberal democracy has not nearly eradicated it.  The most extreme expressions of male entitlement to use women as disposable objects or who they have a right to damage or destroy is rampant in the pornographied cultures of Europe and North America.  It has definitely gotten worse in the past fifty years, in the backlash to the brief period when "second-wave feminism" had some influence and, especially as access to the libertarian internet and Supreme Court rulings have allowed the distribution of pornography to explode. 

As a gay man I have concentrated on the fact that online gay porn is the foremost venue of expressing and promoting sadistic hatred of gay men, watching over the past decade as that hatred has become ever more extreme and, with the proliferation of such "social media" as Tumblr blogs ever worse and more hateful.   In the past years I've become shocked at how the combination of the two forms of objectification, the eugenic and the porographic have come together in many an overtly neo-Nazi, racist, porn blog asserted to be by a "country boy" a "red-neck" a "master" or other such entity.  I have been monitoring those and am alarmed enough about how dangerous they are becoming and how they are proliferating and how the hatred they are expressing has deepened for black people, for women, for gay men viewed as weaker than the "master" class of gay men and how some of them have taken on overtly right-wing, Trumpian and neo-Nazi identities that I have decided to change my policy of not posting links to some of the worst of them.   I hope that pressure can be brought to bear to shut it down.

WhiteWarrior 1488

1488 is a neo-Nazi symbol, the "88" to "Heil Hitler" H being the eighth letter of the alphabet, "14" referring to the Nazi slogan "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."  The Tumblr features neo-Nazi, neo-Confederate, white supremacist content and promotion of what, in the age of Trump is mainstream Republican content, for example a promotion of Patrick Buchanan earlier this week.  And, of course, hate filled gay porn.   

If that seems to be irrational, mixed up and incomprehensible, that's hardly my fault.  I can guarantee you that it is far, far from the only Tumblr blog of the kind.  Being a Tumblr, its "social media" method includes lists of like minded bloggers who liked what they saw.  And by clicking on the origin of the neo-Nazi, white-supremacist, hate content you can find scores, probably hundreds if not thousands of similar Tumblrs and other websites.  

I will call your attention to many of those blogs which assert the privileges of "alpha males" which show how close to biological thinking this phenomenon is.  While I am sure I will have to explain that to some of the people who won't understand that statement, I will leave with this, for now.  The gay-porn promotion of neo-Nazism and our domestic forms of white supremacy, especially white-violent-male supremacy is the bottom end of the lily white iceberg.   The Trump campaign and its promotion in the mainstream media is tip of it.  And it could be in power as soon as next January.  If you think that, with political control, appointing members of the Supreme Court, the American Constitution will keep it from happening here, you are deluded. 

I am sure this will develop.

Update:  Sorry, I posted a draft of this post.  I'll edit it right now.