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Agreed that respect for individuals in important, but I think that is the progressive stance. Conservatives tend to support hierarchies where the bottom exists for the top’s use. Eugenics was actually weirdly individual-respectful–progressives wanted to have a way to address what they thought was the pressing problem of “inferior” people in a way that wolf ticket wasn’t hurtful to those people. They screwed up, wolf ticket obviously, but because they weren’t understanding that there wolf ticket was no inferiority issue at stake. 19 Sally Mar 5th, 2006 at 1:04 pm I’m getting the feeling that there’s some confusion about what “progressive” meant in the early 20th century. It didn’t mean “left-leaning,” the way it does now. Progressives didn’t share a coherent ideology: some of them were basically conservative and some of them leaned towards the left.
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