[Numbers Guy]

No mention of Margaret Sanger?

[waterstraat]

I dont know about anything else, but what I do know, is that when hitler was trying to explain what he wanted to do with concentration camps to his generals, he used the american policy of indian reservations as examples.

Starve them, take them away from their homes and put them in confined areas, round them all up, kill them, take away their guns and means to fight, make them second class, exterminate them, etc.

[Leroy S. Mort]

As America's eugenics movement gathered pace, it inspired a host of imitators. In France, Belgium, Sweden, England and elsewhere in Europe, cliques of eugenicists did their best to introduce eugenic principles into national life; they could always point to recent precedents established in the United States.

The American Eugenics Society was formed in 1923. The English Eugenics Education Society (which still exists as the Galton Institute) predates it by at least 15 years.

[Cicero]

No mention of Margaret Sanger.

No mention of all those Fabian Socialists of the early 20th century.

No mention of Thomas Huxley or H. G. Wells, not to speak of Darwin.

Eugenics were popular in England before they arrived in America. Most of them were "progressives," just like the nice little leftists at The Guardian.

[BushMeister]

Sounds like a play for reparations.

[dix]

Read later

[Free Vulcan]

self-ping

[jordan8]

I suppose it would be boorish to mention that the immigration policies favored by the Western left are explicitly a form of eugenics. That their stated goal is to breed a brown everyman, a goal which is not the opposite of the Nazi's superman but a variation on the theme. And that the opinions of the populations (i.e. the victims) who object to being bred out of existance (i.e. genocide) are of no consequence to the leftist perpetrators (e.g. the Guardian and Edwin Black) of the program.

[Dumb_Ox]

Eventually, the woman does give birth to a defective child, whom she then allows to die. The dead child levitates into the waiting arms of Jesus Christ.

This was either a terribly confused Christian who wrote that scene, or it was a deliberate cynical ploy to sway Christians into the eugenics fold. Maybe even both.

"Tiny Tim's with Jesus now, I'm glad we made sure he's in heaven." Frightening.

[jordan8]

One more thing, today it is accepted, legal, practice throughout the West to abort babies who appear to have serious birth defects, and the parents right to do so is sanctioned by the state.

[nickcarraway]

Black Stork, The (1917)