“He was part of a world-wide elitist movement.”
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Right, “elitist”, I can not imagine that this could have come about in an overt manner as regards the general public at large, it would have been repugnant to “Joe six-pack”, right?
I don’t know. Most people succumb to social pressure pretty quickly when tested. The 20th century worldwide eugenics movement, though, was elitist, and our US Supreme Court endorsed and approved of it-using elitist language- something along the lines of: “three generations of imbeciles is enough.”(Buck v. Bell)