I'm absolutely not surprised. Fascism was always progressive. Many intellectuals were huge fans of Fascism. The progressives know this, they just lie. It's actually a large underlying portion of their complaint about "meritocracy being fascist". They believe that Meritocracy leads to Technocracy, and they know that Fascism routinely advertised itself as Technocratic. ... and they think that the Fascists claim was true.

"White Fragility" is literally the 21st Century version of "The Passing Of The Great Race"

In Britain, as in the United States, leaders and supporters of the eugenics movement included people on the left, such as John Maynard Keynes, who helped create the Cambridge Eugenics Society, as well as H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Harold Laski, Sidney Webb and Julian Huxley. Sidney Webb said, “as a nation we are breeding largely from our inferior stocks.” But eugenics was by no means exclusively a movement on the left, nor one without opponents on the left. Supporters of eugenics also included conservatives, among them both Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill.

In America, among those to whom pioneer birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger took her message was the Ku Klux Klan. Madison Grant’s book The Passing of the Great Race, expressing fears of a loss of hegemony by whites in general and Nordics in particular, was a landmark book of its era. It was not only a best seller in the United States, it was translated into French, Norwegian and— most fatefully— German. Hitler called it his “Bible.”

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That The Passing of the Great Race was taken seriously says much about the times. But Madison Grant was by no means a fringe crank or an ignorant redneck. He was born into a wealthy family in New York City and was educated at Yale and the Columbia University law school. He was a member of numerous exclusive social clubs. Politically, he was a Progressive and an activist on issues important to Progressives, such as conservation, endangered species, municipal reform and the creation of national parks, as well as being a driving force behind the creation of the world’s largest zoo in the Bronx. The Passing of the Great Race was recommended not only in a popular publication like The Saturday Evening Post but was also reviewed in Science, published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The maps for a later book of his were prepared with the help of the American Geographical Society.

• Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals And Race

Honestly, reading that book has made me hate these Progressive Racialists more than anything. I'm not exaggerating when I say they'll volunteer for death camps. These freaks are all John Demjanjuk's waiting for their chance.