After the collapse of the Senate amnesty bill in 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) joined with the National Council of La Raza and others to launch a campaign to smear the three largest mainstream groups making a case for tighter enforcement and lower immigration. At the center of this campaign was the designation of the Federation for American Immigration Reform as a "hate group" and the spread of that taint to Numbers USA and the Center for Immigration Studies. The announced goal was to pressure journalists and policymakers not to meet or speak with these organizations. Touted as an effort to "stop the hate," it was a thinly disguised move to stifle debate.
http://cis.org/Announcments/SPLC-Immigration-Panel fairleft
Quoting from this nexus of rightwing anti-immigrationists is not doing your argument any good. It's hard to take it as a progressive point of view when you're backing it with cites from these people.
Darwin's theory of evolution and Ernst Haeckel's recapitulation theory were large influences on Hall's career. These ideas prompted Hall to examine aspects of childhood development in order to learn about the inheritance of behavior. The subjective character of these studies made their validation impossible. His work also delved into controversial portrayals of the differences between women and men, as well as the concept of racial eugenics. . . . Hall had no sympathy for the poor, the sick or those with developmental differences or disabilities. A firm believer in selective breeding and forced sterilization, Hall believed that any respect or charity toward those he viewed as physically, emotionally, or intellectually weak or "defective" simply interfered with the movement of natural selection toward the development of a super-race. Hall's social vision was a socialism of the right, a blueprint for the future German National Socialism that arose just a few years after his death.
Hall had no sympathy for the poor, the sick or those with developmental differences or disabilities. A firm believer in selective breeding and forced sterilization, Hall believed that any respect or charity toward those he viewed as physically, emotionally, or intellectually weak or "defective" simply interfered with the movement of natural selection toward the development of a super-race. Hall's social vision was a socialism of the right, a blueprint for the future German National Socialism that arose just a few years after his death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._Stanley_Hall
In any case, Tanton appears to be the victim of a smear campaign, as I've noted elsewhere, and appears not to exercise any control over nor hold any office within CIS.
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What about the substance, that it is a good idea to restrict immigration during a period of very high unemployment? Seems like you're avoiding arguing on substance. fairleft
Tanton appears to be the victim of a smear campaign
If you're going to insist on that, how do you expect anyone to take you seriously enough to debate the idea?
A founder and first President of the American Psychological Association was a eugenist and believer in forced sterilization
I'm sorry, but I seem to have lost the thread of this. I didn't see anyone here quote Stanley Hall as a role model, what did I miss?
Given that you're accusing others of avoiding arguing on substance, throwing out random comments about irrelevant and long-dead eugenicists seems a bit weird. In fact, it could leave you open to accusations of trying to avoid answering the very specific points that have been made to you about Tanton.
La Raza, too, now? Oh, good. We've got some Dobbsian crazy coming. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Next he'll get on the "La Raza's name means The Race, and that means they're racists" nonsense. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
Awkward, like you don't even believe it, but that it pays the bills.
I's jess sayin'. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
dangerously left populist and naturally popular
Well, you're probably right. These things sound even better if you say them wearing a brown shirt. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
In addition, the fellows at pffugee camp said it even more explicitly
But of course, the nazi mentality prefers to make scapegoats out of the powerless... Yes, Failreft, I anticipated your hard right turn. Not that that was hard to see developing. Go for it. I wont make fun of you. Just disappear this bogus blognality and show up as someone else on the other side. This is exactly what happend on the "left" in 1920s-30s Germany. You think those millions of Nazi supporters just came out of nowhere?
Yes, Failreft, I anticipated your hard right turn. Not that that was hard to see developing. Go for it. I wont make fun of you. Just disappear this bogus blognality and show up as someone else on the other side. This is exactly what happend on the "left" in 1920s-30s Germany. You think those millions of Nazi supporters just came out of nowhere?
I'm sure the militias are in there somewhere, too, this being a Michigan-tied group.
It's a lot the same people making up these groups. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
We can walk through afterwards and count the troll ratings.
