Liberal Fascism - Chapter Seven
A 10-question quiz on Chapter Seven of Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, entitled "Liberal Racism: The Eugenic Ghost in the Fascist Machine".
- 1.What does the liberal "blind spot on a blind spot" mean?
- A.
The modern liberal's failure to realize that what he wants to do is described as something he considers evil.
- B.
The modern liberal's conflation of fascism with conservatism.
- C.
The modern liberal's inability to recognize the evil inherent in the physically handicapped.
- D.
The modern liberal's refusal to admit that blacks and other minorities can be racist too.
- 2.What does Goldberg admit that liberals were right about?
- A.
The moral justice of the Great Society
- B.
The moral depravity of McCarthyism
- C.
The moral imperative of desegregation
- D.
The moral bankruptcy of the Moral Majority.
- 3.When liberals are morally flawed, what does this indicate?
- A.
They are human like everyone else.
- B.
They are really conservatives.
- C.
Some liberal policies are morally flawed.
- D.
That is an oxymoron; by definition liberals cannot be morally flawed.
- 4.Darwin admitted that his ideas were an extension of something to the natural world. What was it?
- A.
The Social Gospel.
- B.
Newtonian physics.
- C.
Malthusian economics.
- D.
Enlightenment philosophy.
- 5.What does Goldberg state is the most powerful inhibiting influence against bad ideas?
- A.
Emotion.
- B.
Reason.
- C.
Science.
- D.
Dogma.
- 6.It is a well-documented fact that ________ lay at the heart of the Progressive enterprise.
- 7.What did Sidney Webb, the father of Fabian socialism, insist that no consistent eugenicist can be?
- A.
Negro.
- B.
Jewish.
- C.
Catholic.
- D.
Laissez Faire.
- 8.Who declared eugenics to be "the most important, significant and, Iwould add, genuine branch of sociology."
- A.
Aldous Huxley
- B.
John Maynard Keynes
- C.
George Bernard Shaw
- D.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 9.What did the term "Social Darwinist" originally mean?
- A.
Anyone who opposed the idea that the state must interfere in the reproductive order of society.
- B.
Anyone who believed in applying Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to human societies.
- C.
Anyone who believed in free and unfettered capitalism
- D.
Anyone who supported the idea that the state must interfere in the reproductive order of society
- 10.Whose "Code to Stop Overproduction of Children", published in 1934, presaged the Chinese "One Child" policy?
- A.
H.G. Wells
- B.
Margaret Sanger
- C.
J.S. Haldane
- D.
Julian Huxley
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