H G Wells was a supporter of eugenics. I bet you don't like that...
I do.
More inaccurate nonsense from the poison, racist pen of Reelfountain ... Let's reveal her blind stupidity, again.
Wells provided numerous views on his thoughts on race, racial purity and eugenics. It's not at all unexpected that the racist, Reelfountain, should focus in on eugenics.
Wells believed human rights should be available to all people …
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a prohibition on mutilation, sterilization, torture, and any bodily punishment".
Definition of human rights ....
“Human rights are moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law. They are commonly understood as inalienable, fundamental rights "to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being" and which are "inherent in all human beings", regardless of their nation, location, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status.”
In regard to racism, he said ….
"I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose"
Wells praised the "heroic" resolve of black Americans, stating he doubted if the US could:
“show any thing finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast effort hundreds of black and coloured men are making to-day to live blamelessly, honourably, and patiently, getting for themselves what scraps of refinement, learning, and beauty they may, keeping their hold on a civilization they are grudged and denied.”
In reference to racial purity, he said ….
"Mankind from the point of view of a biologist is an animal species in a state of arrested differentiation and possible admixture . . . All races are more or less mixed."
Wells discussed eugenics stating that he doubted whether human knowledge had advanced sufficiently for eugenics to be successful.
"I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies... It is in the sterilsation of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies".
This was interpreted as support for eugenics by some, but also interpreted as acknowlegding the potential scientific situation, as it was at that time by others.
One prevalent means of applying science to social policy was eugenics, the pseudoscience which advocated the selective breeding of humans, now heavily associated with Hitler’s death camps - something Reelfountain is a vocal fan of. Wells did dabble with eugenic ideas. He praised 'the nation that most resolutely picks over, educates, sterilizes, exports, or poisons its People of the Abyss'. But he also dissented from the hard-line eugenics advocated by Francis Galton and others, advocating education rather than compulsion.
In A Modern Utopia prospective married couples are offered eugenic choices rather than forced to marry a good genetic match. Wells is said to have advocated the sterilization of what was described at the time as genetic ‘failures’. If true, this is a concerning statement. However unpalatable some of comments regarding eugenics, attributed to Wells seem - none, for the purpose of this discourse - relate to race. That doesn’t excuse any of the eugenic comments he may have made it merely clarifies he did not support eugenics in the manner that has been suggested by Reelfountain.Which is, of course, of no surprise to anyone.