Oh Brookline

My hometown loves to boast about the plethora of respectable individuals that were born and/or raised there: Conan O'Brien, Mike Dukakis, John F. Kennedy, Bob Kraft, Theo Epstein, Barbara Walters, Mike Wallace, etc. yea no big deal.

Rarely, though, do we like to talk about this fucking chooch:

Lothrop Stoddard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothrop_Stoddard

Racial theorist, and eugenic scientist. What a stupid asshole. Excerpts of his writing include:

"Inferiority is most plainly manifest in what are known
as the "defective classes" -- the feeble-minded, the in-
sane, and certain categories of the deformed and the
diseased.  Most of these "defectives" suffer from hered-
itary defects -- in other words, from defects which are
passed on in the germ-plasm from generation to generat-
tion.  The "defective classes" are not really sundered
by any natural line of demarcation from the rest of the
population.  They are merely terms used to denote those
groups of persons who are so obviously afflicted that
they can be classified as such.  Besides these acute de-
fectives, however, there are vast numbers of persons who
show only slight taints, while still others reveal no out-
ward trace whatever, yet carry the defect in their germ-
plasm as a latent or "recessive" quality which may come
out in their children, especially if they marry persons
similarly tainted."

This guy sucks.