Hunting Down Social Darwinism Will This Canard Go Extinct

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versusNewDeal,116; versusOliverWendell interracialmarriage:opposedby eugenicists,32,
Holmes,Jr., 64–65; versusProgressivism,44, 112, 115, 117, 242; opposedby Herbert
64–65, 81–82, 88, 104–105, 112, 116, 120, 157, Spencer,32; opposedby TheodoreRoosevelt,
161, 202–204, 245, 248, 253, 295n22;versus 115.See alsoeugenics;Jim Crowlaws;racism;
RichardEly, 88; versusRichardHofstadter, segregation
44, 81–82, 112, 248, 264; versussocialism,94, InventivePeriod,xi, 8, 32, 38, 54, 55, 58, 103,
123, 157, 161, 245; versusVolkish 133–134, 168, 177–178, 179–180, 248, 265–266
romanticism,72, 135, 138, 165, 217–223,
328–329, 332–333; versusW. E. B. Du Bois, Jackson,Andrew, 154
118.See alsoself-interest Jacobi,FriedrichHeinrich, 217
individualrights.Seerights Jacoby,Susan:bowdlerizesW. E. B. Du Bois,
IndustrialRevolution:blamedfor causing 118; deridesAynRand,58–59; hypocritical
cancer,205; blamedfor environmental abouteugenicsand W. E. B. Du Bois,118; on
devastation,205, 220; blamedfor social eugenics,58–93, 118; on socialDarwinism,
Darwinism,12–15, 32–34, 40–41, 54–56, 14–15, 16–18, 29, 58–59, 118; on term“social
56–58, 59–61, 133–134, 265–266; denouncedin Darwinism”, 29; quotesHerbertSpencerout-
Bionomicsbook,265–266; deridedby Robert of-context,16–18; quotesWilliamGraham
F. Kennedy,Jr., 154; hatedby Hitler,168, Sumnerout-of-context,14–15.See alsoleft-
177–178, 179; hatedby Nazis,69, 70, 220; wingintellectuals
hatedby Progressives,154, 178; hatedby Jacobs,Jane, 264
Romanticistmovement,69, 70, 71, 72, JAMA. SeeJournalof the AmericanMedical
218–219, 220; hatedby Volkishmovement, Association(JAMA)
69, 71, 72, 218–219, 220; reducesmortality James,Henry, 84
rate,90, 91, 205–206.Seecapitalism; James,William,83–84
chemicals;InventivePeriod;Jews;Western Japanese,32, 47n27,67, 116–117, 250, 295n22
mortalityrate Jefferson,Thomas:accusedof socialDarwinism,
inequality:betweensexes,95–97, 106–107; 4; and deism,56; anticipatesProgressives’
distinctionbetweenpoliticalinequalityand misreadingof U.S.Constitution’s Commerce
economicinequality,41–42; economic Clause,155; disrespectedby WilliamGraham
inequalitybemoanedby Columbinekillers, Sumner,285; hypocrisyon slavery,68;
251; economicinequalitydenouncedby memoryinsultedby HenrySteele
Hitler,177, 179; in legalstandingbetween Commager,91; on AlgernonSidney,327; on
races,41–44, 85–86, 91–94, 110, 112–122; in Aristotle,327; on Cicero,327; on
wealth,41–42, 107–108, 159–169, 177, 179, corporations,154, 155; on government
251, 332; politicalLeft’s confusionabout regulation,155; on Locke,327; on
LesterFrankWard’s opinionson, 81–86.See philosophicinspirationsfor Declarationof
also“socialDarwinism” (term);social Independence,327; quoted,4, 154, 155
inequality Jennings,CharlesDarwin,122–123
initiationof the use of force:appliedwhenState Jennings,HerbertSpencer(anti-eugenics
triesto policecitizens’ health,203; by biologist),122–123, 290
government,xii–xiii, 10, 203; by vigilantes, Jews:and departmentstores,145, 163, 166, 187;
304–308, 310–311; contractbreachas, and HenryFord,32; and Tay-Sachsdisease,
319–320; defamationas, 320; defined,xi–xii; 240; and usury,32, 184; calledcommunists,
existenceof nightwatchmanstateis not an, 162; denouncedby JohnCommons,121;
299–313; harassmentcountsas, 317; fraudas, depictedby Hitleras elitistclassistcapitalist
319–320; identitytheftas, 317; in attemptsto socialDarwinists,181, 186; denouncedby
policecitizens’ health,203; indirect,319–320; Progressives,121, 167; denouncedby
stalkingcountsas, 317; trademark socialists,165, 167, 168; expropriatedto
infringement,318; violentretaliationagainst, financeNaziwelfarestate,166, 181–182, 238;
xi–xii, 304–313.See alsoanarchy;compulsory hatedfor beingcapitalist,32, 135, 184; in Italy
sterilization;contracts;defamation;force; underMussolini,152; in the MiddleAges,32,
governism;government;harassment;Ruleof 137, 163; persecutedby JosefStalin,118;
Peace;stalking;vigilantes storesforciblyboycottedby Nazis,145, 163,
InternationalBusinessMachine(IBM).SeeIBM 166, 187
The InternationalJew(book), 37 Jim Crowlaws,110–111, 112, 117

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