When Poverty Was White (or yet another reason Charles Murray is full of s***)
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It’s a striking omission, because her case highlights the historical blindness of Mr. Murray’s narrow focus on the cultural and policy changes of the 1960s as the root of white America’s decline. The story of white poverty, as Ms. Buck’s story illustrates, is much longer and more complex than he and his admirers realize or want to admit.
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Involuntary sterilization was the early 20th century’s remedy for what Mr. Murray blames on changes in the 1960s. But it was precisely the changes of that era — for black civil rights, women’s rights, poor people’s rights — and socially committed Catholicism that ended this inhumane practice.
Along the way, though, something got lost. Ms. Buck, sterilization, white poverty — this older history disappeared in the mid-20th century, when prosperity isolated the stigmata of poverty in black Americans. In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action” laid blame on a black “tangle of pathology” of ghetto culture. Mr. Moynihan voiced a logic widespread at the time, translating the disarray associated with poverty into a racial trait.
Full oped: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/opinion/sunday/when-poverty-was-white.html&pagewanted=all
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Forced sterilization for the "feeble minded" and other malcontents. Breed 'em strong and docile. 
...because something can be done about it since they're worthy of the redemptive efforts of reformers. All others are in their condition because of their inherit low "unit trait" value, which although may from time to time may display well on the Intelligence Quotient is in fact just a product of a morally bankrupt culture. We shall create separate but equal institutions for their betterment so that they do not influence the White Poor. No eugenics here, just good old fashioned American sociology! Let the phrenology commence...
(This is massive )
...you must fear the other and keep women suppressed!
...what will bring White America back together is clean-burning, safe, efficient natural gas, and its friends tar sands and shale oil rock. Cheap energy is bedrock of our culture!
Get up and stop being a bunch of wimps White America - walk, ride a bike, take public transit, do something!
