The Left's Dance with Eugenics

http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-eugenics-is-bad-and-anti-eugenics.html A good historical analysis of eugenics, with some note of its relation to religion. I'm not quite so transcendentalist as the author and there are a few points to which I take exception, but there are some fine sequences of thought here and a happy grasp of the Orwellian inversions and perversions perpetrated under cover of political correctness. My exceptions: I doubt that all pre-modern societies were as eugenic as he supposed. In most places, the great majority were rural farmers with similar reproductive success regardless of the finer differences in fitness. Also, cities were places where the elites gathered, but also places with the highest mortality rates by a substantial margin. Still, the overall trend was probably slightly eugenic. I read a paper on this subject that looked at pre-modern England and found good evidence for eugenic effects. I also disagree that PC opposition to eugenics stems from the PC elite's fear of being themselves, as high IQ people, forced by government to have more children. I think, instead, that their opposition is another case of reality-denial: they refuse to believe in human biodiversity, they are committed unequivocally to belief in human equality. And the commitment is unequivocal because it is a moral commitment, utterly divorced from any scientific facts. Charlton gives them too much credit for rationality. They are ideologues, for whom inconvenient facts are matters to be ignored or lied about.