According to eugenics, “some people are born to be a burden on the rest”.
You see, the eugenics movement — which
steadily gained popularity for the first nearly 40 years of the 20th
century and is the direct reason for forced sterilization laws
implemented across America — sought to “breed out” people the elite that
ultimately funded and promoted it (the Carnegie Institute and the
Rockefeller Foundation, etc.) determined were genetically defective
“riff raff” by way of pseudoscience parading as science.
Victims of eugenics included minorities,
the children of Caucasians who interbred with minorities, poor people,
people with physical disabilities or who were considered
“feeble-minded,” those who were deemed “delinquent,” and really, the
list goes on and on (the slope got more and more slippery over time).
Eugenics only disappeared from public view when the PR disaster of World
War II forced it to. Guess it looked pretty bad after the Nazis began
so heavily promoting it.
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