By tying euthanasia to eugenics, Gorsuch is implicitly tying abortion to eugenics as well.
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It's not very pretty to think about ways in which Nazi eugenics policies were practically modeled on American eugenics policies.
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In 1935, the Carnegie Institution concluded the science of eugenics was not valid and withdrew its funding for the Eugenics Records Office at Cold Spring Harbor.
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"Everybody's always concerned about state-led eugenics, knowing what happened in World War II." Eugenics is the idea that humans can be selectively bred to create a perfect species.
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The book highlights the horrifying impact of the Nazi euthanasia program and the American eugenics movement alike, and accurately ties the wide-scale institutionalization of disabled Americans to the eugenics project.
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Popular acceptance of eugenics in the United States came to a quick end with World War II and the Holocaust, which had taken the logic of eugenics to its horrifying conclusion.
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Reformers: Race, Eugenics & American Economics in the Progressive Era
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Sanger has been criticized for embracing some principles of eugenics.
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Eugenics, in its time, became a scientific justification for racism.
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Aborting children because of a disability is rooted in eugenics.
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Bill Gates's global health philanthropy is a mass eugenics effort.
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But Church said his app has nothing to do with eugenics because he&aposs not requiring people to partake in it like classic eugenics does through forced sterilization, breeding, and extermination of certain people.
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Jennings Bryan didn't use its name; today, we call it eugenics.
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Dr. Rosenfeld makes the obvious, and irrefutable, comparison to Nazi eugenics.
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"That's taking a step down the road of eugenics," Caplan says.
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The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck,
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Are we going to wind up with super babies and eugenics?
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The Court sanctioned eugenics and forced sterilization against inmates of institutions.
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It sounds like some straight-up eugenics bullshit, and it is.
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Fascism, racism, eugenics and nationalism are ideas with alarming recent popularity.
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Perhaps paradoxically, it was the Nazi genocide that stigmatized eugenics forever.
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The eugenics crusade provided a monstrous answer: Ban them from reproducing.
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Does anything link the eugenics of the past to abortion today?
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Contemporary justifications for this practice rely on core tenets of eugenics.
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It also has the power to basically become a form of eugenics.
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Politically, eugenics has been an ugly word: the promise of genocidal tyrants.
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History, and even the U.S. State Department hosted lectures on eugenics. Over
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There is no grand eugenics-based plan to control the U.S. population.
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They saw Sociobiology as dangerous, full of potential for racism and eugenics.
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Pope Francis was correct to explicitly label abortion as modern-day eugenics.
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From my own point of view, the Ashley Treatment smacks of eugenics.
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As expected, there's discussion of "designer babies," eugenics and "improving" our species.
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Sanger has been criticized over her embrace of some principles of eugenics.
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Eugenics; phrenology; the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male.
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A writer from The Daily Show jokes about eugenics for Twitter trolls.
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My only note is that he might have placed greater emphasis on the American eugenics movement, and specifically on Granville Stanley Hall, the first president of the American Psychological Association and the founding editor of the journal Eugenics .
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If anything, there was exploration of the negative side, like the eugenics movement.
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By the mid-1930s, the American scientific community was pulling away from eugenics.
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Ironically, she has reinforced a medical model of ethnic "purity" reminiscent of eugenics.
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IMBECILESThe Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie BuckBy Adam CohenIllustrated.
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Supremely confident of their objectivity, nativist leaders sought to put eugenics into practice.
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He studied there in the early 1900s, amid the rise of eugenics movements.
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This stage ended with the Second World War and revulsion against Nazi eugenics.
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Unfortunately, Lovecraft was also an extreme racist who was deeply committed to eugenics.
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Eugenics policies were shaped by entrenched hierarchies of race, class, gender and ability.
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Today, we know that eugenics was based on faulty science and fears surrounding immigration, and that the "undesirable traits" proponents of eugenics were describing referred to poor and minority populations, who suffered disproportionately under the discriminatory laws spawned by this movement.
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Eugenics and dog breeding share the same language and misconceptions, Pedercini noted—the term "mongrel" was applied to both dogs and humans, and in the golden age of eugenics in America, there were "fitter family" contests similar to dog shows.
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Harvard has, in fact, been described as the "brain trust" of the eugenics movement.
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The scientific quest for the father grew directly out of eugenics and race science.
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You couldn't hold your head up if you didn't support eugenics in those days.
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This is the high road to eugenics, about which Mr Plomin is largely silent.
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Hospital administrators see the clinics as a threat to a coldly scientific eugenics regime.
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Below the interview is an excerpt from his book, on the history of eugenics.
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In June, for example, he called abortion a "white gloves" version of Nazi eugenics.
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They fear that the old spectre of eugenics risks rising in a new guise.
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He's also hung up on eugenics, an unspoken contradiction of the show's meritocratic themes.
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From its very origins, the abortion giant's founder was influenced by the eugenics movement.
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ILLIBERAL REFORMERSRace, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive EraBy Thomas C. Leonard275 pp.
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Second, he was educated in Virginia, the veritable cradle of eugenics and scientific racism.
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Together, they popularized "racial eugenics," a junk science that made ethnically based racism respectable.
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American environmentalism has worked hard to exorcise eugenics and colonial conquest from its movements.
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Epstein was into science, albeit eugenics and weird theories of physics based on capitalism.
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Jefferson's writings formed the basis for later forms of race-based science and eugenics.
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It was only a matter of time before Orphan Black had to address eugenics.
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Eugenics is the pseudo-science of improving the human population through controlled and selective breeding.
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Scientists convened at eugenics conferences held at prestigious museums and universities to illustrate their hypotheses.
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Like Tanton, FAIR's early board members subscribed to a brand of environmentalism that emphasized eugenics.
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Then there are his ideas for tweaking local demographics, which verge on soft-core eugenics.
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In the United States, the "science" of eugenics became intertwined with disturbing ideas about race.
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That doesn't sound like borderline dog eugenics out of a science fiction movie, at all.
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You can easily reason your way into eugenics or some other repugnant worldview, after all.
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There is a universe in which the eugenics He practiced are actually a good idea.
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IMBECILES: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, by Adam Cohen.
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Of 1808 states that had eugenics laws, none used the practice as much as California.
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Patient records showed how the eugenics program was driven by the prejudices of the day.
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"The flip side of all this is the 'perfect race' or eugenics specter," Jorgensen acknowledged.
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Okrent's discussion misses a major aspect of eugenics: anxiety about falling fertility among educated women.
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The hate-filled rhetoric is stronger and we are seeing a lot more about eugenics.
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Boris Johnson's chief adviser has hired a staffer — Andrew Sabisky — with an interest in eugenics.
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The scheme reflected Mr. Epstein's longstanding fasciation with transhumanism, a modern-day version of eugenics.
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The net effect of Spencer's Social Darwinism: the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.
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As a parent who found the eugenics of it disturbing, what was I to do?
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IMBECILES: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, And The Sterilization Of Carrie Buck, by Adam Cohen.
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This is known as eugenics and has a particularly checkered history in the United States.
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He believed this was a heritable trait, and he helped launch the American eugenics movement.
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The unproduced film focused on a number of scifi elements, including human cloning, immortality, and eugenics.
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""Is the extreme that we have a kind of neuro-eugenics with only one correct brain?
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There's no sickness, just a lot of prejudice and eugenics that call to mind Josef Mengele.
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Race and poverty and disability also intersect in a way that makes the eugenics comparison unavoidable.
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The riot kicks off as Wright and Carter have a hushed conversation—the one about eugenics.
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"From the beginning, birth control and abortion were promoted as means of effectuating eugenics," he wrote.
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Eugenics is the science of deliberately breeding human beings to increase the likelihood of certain characteristics.
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"Indiana has a compelling interest in attempting to prevent this type of private eugenics," he wrote.
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But it's also about the history of eugenics, dubious science, "redlining," and segregated housing in Baltimore.
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In fact, even during the eugenics movement the Department of Indian Affairs in Canada required consent.
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Or maybe eugenics—Epstein's own area of keen interest … in addition, of course, to child rape.
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Yet the appeal of pure breeds probably owed less to eugenics than aspiration—and still does.
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Justice Clarence Thomas's concurrence provides a new approach to the anti-abortion argument by focusing on eugenics.
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The quantification of life, from actuarial tables to eugenics, gave numbers the power over life and death.
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After the videos, Arnold Smither walked students through a short history of post–World War I eugenics.
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"If you don't want eugenics, you just draw a line and stop there," Caplan tells The Verge.
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What's more, telling a man he can't have children because he's somehow genetically deficient is basically eugenics.
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" George Soros contributes "massive funds to eugenics programs and population control through toxic food and toxic vaccines.
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Lurid yet turgid, the movie is a tale of doomed puppy love, Nazi eugenics and sexual sadism.
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To me, it was an attempt to control nature, like eugenics; it made me think of Hitler.
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In the first half of the 223th century, approximately 153,215 people were sterilized under US eugenics programs.
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Perhaps it's no coincidence that some evolutionary psychologists have expressed support for the idea of modern eugenics projects.
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As an imperialist, and frank advocate of eugenics, Roosevelt's views on racial hierarchy are well-known to historians.
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To support the position that eugenics supporters embraced abortion, Thomas largely cited writings from the 1930s and 1960s.
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While many of the ideas of transhumanism are noble, the field is accused of sharing traits with eugenics.
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It's Doudna herself, the co-discoverer of CRISPR, who notes that all this raises the specter of eugenics.
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It's a tad darker than your standard thriller: Disease, eugenics, and Dante aren't exactly light fare, after all.
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Benningfield's program was seen by some as an echo of the eugenics movement of the early 20th century.
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" On the cover of the Book Review, David Oshinsky called it "a superb history of eugenics in America.
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At the time of Ms. Buck's institutionalization, the United States was swept up in a mania for eugenics.
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And eugenics was of particularly keen interest to doctors, including Albert Priddy, the superintendent of Ms. Buck's institution.
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Eugenics based on theories of race hygiene preceded the rise of the Nazi regime to power in Germany.
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She imagines life inside an asylum that existed in Virginia through the '50s in which eugenics were practiced.
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And why do so some advocates of abortion on demand deny the creeping, technology-driven risk of eugenics?
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The film shows how lobbying from eugenics proponents helped push Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924.
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It was championed by Walter Plecker, the state's first head of vital statistics and an advocate of eugenics.
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Is this selective, and if so, who gets selected, and why are people not more concerned about eugenics?
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But Rat Film is also about the history of eugenics, dubious science, "redlining," and segregated housing in Baltimore.
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Thomas does this to advocate for his position that states have a compelling interest in prohibiting eugenics in abortion.
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A senior academic at the University College London was holding eugenics conferences, allegedly in secret, since at least 2015.
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As for "friendliness," all eugenics denied prejudice, as Trump does today, claiming merely to address the facts of nature.
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Bioethicists fear this will lead to eugenics programs, where people sporting undesired traits are suddenly considered "unfit" for society.
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Eugenics supporter John Tanton founded FAIR, which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as an anti-immigration hate group.
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Back in 1937, 385 African-German children were forcibly—and illegally—sterilized as part of Hitler's foray into eugenics.
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Forget the moral quandaries that come with forced sterilization and selective breeding—let's talk about the science behind eugenics.
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Attempts to twist genetic information to draw boundaries between groups have seeded societal toxicities like eugenics and white nationalism.
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It also declined, despite many requests, to state that the prime minister rejects theories of eugenics or racial superiority.
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Only here do mastic trees and shrubs produce so much resin, the result of many centuries of horticultural eugenics.
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Furthermore, killing babies with Down syndrome before they are born is a revival of the mentality of Nazi eugenics.
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Roosevelt is a complicated figure, they say — indeed, he was an environmentalist as well as a devotee of eugenics.
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Sullivan, the landmark libel ruling, and argued that the fight for abortion rights shares roots with the eugenics movement.
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He's been denounced as a racist who's based his life's work on pseudoscience and eugenics; he's also newly relevant.
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Eugenics was seen as a "science" in the early 20th century, and its ideas remained popular into the midcentury.
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She was not a full believer in all of eugenics, and disagreed with some of the things eugenicists believe in.
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Last week, the TV personality spewed out nonsense about what he perceives to be the eugenics ethos of Planned Parenthood.
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In the opening act (which only marginally features Kurt), Elisabeth, who suffers from schizophrenia, falls victim to Nazi eugenics protocols.
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A Harvard geneticist is creating a dating app that matches users based on DNA, and people are worried it's eugenics
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John Smith (Rufus Sewell) was an American Nazi officer tasked with killing his own son to comply with eugenics laws.
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Malthusian theories also provided a philosophical underpinning for racist beliefs and eugenics programs.
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Japan adopted the "Eugenics Protection Law" in 1948 as it struggled with food shortages and rebuilding a war-ravaged nation.
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It's also true that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, believed in eugenics as a matter of public health.
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The manifesto advocates eugenics, the "complete destruction" of the LGBTQ movement, the prohibition of abortion, and the "repatriation" of minorities.
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Readers balk at his passion for eugenics, attitude to what he called "the inferior races" and tendency to trivialise women.
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In the first, the stories delve into the intersections among science, medicine, even eugenics, and motherhood, race and self-regard.
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For the wine establishment of Bordeaux, blending grapes from different appellations is the vintner's equivalent of fantasy football, or eugenics.
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Indiana's law promotes "a state's compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics," Thomas wrote.
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In practice, where you find concern over "population," you very often find racism, xenophobia, or eugenics lurking in the wings.
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But the fact that so many people mentioned it showed me how many people still believe in something like eugenics.
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This became explicit with the 1994 Eugenics and Health Protection Law forbidding people with mental or physical disorders from reproducing.
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While many nations abandoned eugenics laws after the horrors of Nazi Germany, Japan did not repeal its law until 1996.
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How do you consider the misinformation — such as, say, that Planned Parenthood furthers eugenics — that can proliferate about the organization?
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Early in my career, I taught a course that covered the eugenics movement, which advocated the selective breeding of humans.
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Japan's "Eugenics Protection Law" came into effect in 1948 as it struggled with food shortages and rebuilding a ravaged nation.
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"The Eugenics Crusade," an American Experience film that premiered on PBS Tuesday night, recounts how America responded to those fears.
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The eugenics crusade had Charles Davenport, a slender, Ivy League-educated scientist whose dignified demeanor exuded an air of authority.
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Why eugenics ideas persist The crusade to build a better race eventually became a quest to build a whiter race.
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Bertillon's system also reflected racist applications of eugenics and phrenology, and laid the groundwork for problematic profiling in the 20th century.
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Tyler participated in the eugenics cause as a volunteer "hygiene" worker, managing publicity and organizing parades for a "Better Babies" campaign.
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It's been compared to eugenics, a now-discredited school of thought that aimed to control reproduction through, for example, sterilizing people.
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Dakota Johnson will star in the movie, based on Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck.
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This support may seem surprising, because the early birth-control movement often cooperated with the eugenics movement, whose leaders were archracists.
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The US Army, a eugenics professor, and thousands of universities came together to give birth to the world's biggest standardized exam.
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Working in the shadow of the eugenics movement, he insisted that such infants, whom hospitals could seldom save, deserved a chance.
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Socialists, anarchists, civil rights leaders (including W.E.B. Du Bois), Jewish leaders and feminists tried unsuccessfully to formulate progressive versions of eugenics.
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He is especially piqued by those who observe that science was sometimes used to justify monstrous ends, including racism and eugenics.
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Ferrari shows how America's sterilization policies inspired Nazi Germany's leaders to launch their own eugenics program, which later led to genocide.
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Is it just an extension of the horrific early 20th century eugenics movement, which many philanthropists of the time eagerly embraced?
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He's also compared climate change science to eugenics and criticized climate scientists for tinkering with data models to prove their theories.
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An adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson quit Monday after receiving backlash over his previous remarks on race and eugenics.
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Photos taken in studies like these were historically used to lend support to theories of racial eugenics and cultivating genetic superiority.
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The rebel players needed an excuse to denounce the UN, and stormed out of peace talks claiming Unicef was practicing eugenics.
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Dr Mukherjee does not neglect the catastrophic missteps that science has taken, including the global rise of the eugenics movement, from the campaign by Francis Galton, Darwin's half-cousin, to make it the "national religion" of Britain, to the atrocities committed by Nazi doctors in the second world war, which largely brought eugenics programmes to a halt.
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Though the most notorious eugenics laws were imposed by Nazi Germany, Japan is not the only nation with similar programs in peacetime.
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Although the most notorious eugenics laws were imposed by Nazi Germany, Japan is not the only nation with similar programs in peacetime.
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Its third superintendent, Walter E. Fernald, was obsessed with eugenics, and consequently didn't provide the most nurturing environment for the "school's" residents.
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The American Association for the Advancement of Science put its full weight behind the eugenics movement through its trend-setting publication, Science.
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The GOP gets particularly vicious when dependency combines with race (eugenics and racism are toxins that have always reinforced each other anyway).
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In fact, he shared one thing in common with his World War II foes in Nazi Germany: a keen enthusiasm for eugenics.
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Thomas pointed to comments from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger in the 1920s that promoted eugenics as fueling his concerns surrounding abortion.
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Four years later, she contributed a chapter about the "conflicting female ideals" under the Nazis to a book about art and eugenics.
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It's associated with Nazi ideology — the party favored blond, blue-eyed, Aryan people and used the idea of eugenics to justify genocide.
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In the early 20th century, federally funded programs supported eugenics, forced or coerced sterilization of "undesirable" communities including Black women and girls.
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We know all too well that science and the sheen of objectivity it carries can be put to horrific uses (see: eugenics).
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Instead, some liberals want national security practitioners to stay as far away as possible, lest a whiff of eugenics scent the air.
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Eugenics, which was rampant before and during the Reich, provided the rationale for the killings, stigmatizing those with disabilities as not human.
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Mr. Potok attributed the determination in part to troubling remarks about race and eugenics made by people formerly linked to the group.
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Besides alleged illicit assaults and sex trafficking to the rich and powerful, he had other interests, like eugenics, cryogenics, and theoretical physics.
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The 21625 law lasted only temporarily; soon lobbyists who believed in eugenics and white supremacy gathered to write a more restrictive version.
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Eugenics has long been a fascination of Nazis and white supremacists, who dream of creating a white and genetically "pure" master race.
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More recently, at a meeting in Rome, the pope denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program.
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In fact, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the University of Virginia was one of the leading schools studying eugenics.
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"The Constitution itself is silent on abortion," Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion that also spent 15 pages discussing the history of eugenics.
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Thomas bounced back and forth between discussing birth control and abortion in the context of eugenics, while acknowledging that they raise different issues.
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Because ethnic-Chinese Singaporeans, who make up three-quarters of the population, are highly educated, the measures smacked of eugenics and were unpopular.
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The research does not appear to support "progressive eugenics", as advanced by Toby Young, a journalist and a co-author of the study.
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David King, director of the UK campaign group Human Genetics Alert, said Niakan's plans would eventually lead to "a future of consumer eugenics".
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From slavery, to eugenics, to economic Darwinism, to anti-abortion politics, the latest scientific knowledge has been employed in the service of evil.
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He was also a prominent member of a leading eugenics organization, the Human Betterment Foundation, that promoted forced sterilization to improve human genetics.
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The 1924 law endorsed by Coolidge is widely seen today as a symbol of bigotry and was heavily influenced by the eugenics movement.
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And in the 1910s and 1920, at the dawn of the modern era of genetic science, it resulted in eugenics research and policy.
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These bills are also cynically drawing directly on real concerns from the disability community, which has dealt with a long legacy of eugenics.
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The eugenics movement was embraced by prominent doctors and biologists as well as social advocates like Margaret Sanger and political leaders like Theodore Roosevelt.
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Happer also compared the science of the climate change to the consensus around the eugenics movement in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Again, the show points out that AMNH hosted the Third International Congress of Eugenics in 1932, just four years before the memorial was opened.
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It was not the time to address the statue's racial hierarchy or the AMNH's recent enthusiasm for eugenics, so notably adopted by Nazi Germany.
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But her blithe references to the eugenics-tinged theory of hereditary criminality, combined with Cotillard's steely composure, suggest a colder and more manipulative figure.
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Supporters of the bills say they protect people with disabilities from discrimination; some even compare the rates of Down syndrome-related terminations to eugenics.
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Indiana in 1907 became the first U.S. state to pass a eugenics law making sterilization mandatory for certain types of people in state custody.
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Reports of Nazi atrocities amplified by the 1945–46 Nuremberg trials put the nail in the coffin of the eugenics movement in the West.
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She also gives serious attention to Gould's youthful interest in eugenics, a subject mentioned but glossed over by Mitchell in both of his profiles.
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The chief author of the laws was Albert Johnson, a eugenicist who dabbled in racist pseudoscience and was head of The Eugenics Research Association.
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After the Second World War, Nazi attorneys at the Nuremberg trials used Hall's writings, and those of Eugenics contributors, as palliatives for Nazi atrocities.
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"The Chosen Ones," released in the U.S. this week, goes inside a Vienna clinic that's home to victims of Nazi eugenics and euthanasia programs.
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But the impulse to identify evolution with progress has proved hard to resist, as has the temptation to lend evolution a hand with eugenics.
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California passed the third eugenics law in the U.S. and performed one-third of all the nation's estimated 60,000 forced sterilizations, the study says.
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And cultural conservatives open up a new front, which is biological, eugenics: not only were we here first, but that we're a superior breed.
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It was a eugenics-inspired effort to severely limit the immigration of Jewish, Southern, and Eastern Europeans, and to ban Africans and Asians altogether.
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With fetuses incubated, childbirth would become moot and through a eugenics-like lens, Ettinger proposed that those born with cerebral palsy could simply remain frozen.
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Schoen acknowledges that Sanger did adopt some of the eugenics framework in order to gain the support of medical professionals in the 1920s and '30s.
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According to Czech, Asperger knew exactly what was going on at the clinic—that children were being murdered as part of the Nazi eugenics program.
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"This law and other laws like it promote a State's compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics," he wrote.
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My son's school, David Starr Jordan Middle School, just got renamed because the man had [supported] eugenics — not sterilized anyone personally, but written about sterilization.
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An excellent and unsparing biography, " Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant ," by Jonathan Peter Spiro, came out in 21950.
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AP noted that the organization has promoted eugenics and supported "race scientists," who claimed to study how blacks are intellectually and genetically inferior to whites.
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Sanger, who died in 1966, did make comments in favor of eugenics on the basis of disability, but Planned Parenthood has since denounced that viewpoint.
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Under Japan's eugenics protection law, in force from 193 to 1996, about 25,000 people were sterilized due to mental or genetic illnesses, Japanese media said.
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The organization was founded by John Tanton, who embraced eugenics, and is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-immigrant hate group.
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Thirty-two U.S. states embraced eugenics at some point, with the number of sterilizations climbing after a 20163 Supreme Court decision upholding a Virginia law.
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His fortunes dwindle, and his ideas become increasingly bizarre — although the film doesn't go as far as noting Tesla's later full-throated support for eugenics.
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The UK government is under intense pressure to sack Sabisky for his comments about eugenics, the widely discredited attempt to link intelligence t0 racial characteristics.
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The science of eugenics, literally "good stock," found favor among many white progressives in America, who saw it as a neat solution for social problems.
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The logic of eugenics also shaped the immigration quota system put in place in the early 1920s, which restricted immigration almost entirely to white populations.
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Where would the American Kennel Club be, after all, if it wasn't for these canine eugenics projects that have resulted in hundreds of different breeds?
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The brutal reality, according to Czech, is that he was both a Nazi sympathizer, and a medical doctor who "actively contributed" to the Nazi eugenics program.
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Carl Seeband (Sebastian Koch), the doctor overseeing the area's eugenics program who personally condemns Elisabeth to death, manages to escape prosecution after Germany loses the war.
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Its history was often ugly and racist, from the idea of "the white man's burden" that was used to justify colonialism to the pseudoscience of eugenics.
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Others are worried about societal effects — for example, that approving gene-editing for disability will create a slippery slope leading to "designer babies" and eugenics programs.
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"One of the big proponents of eugenics in the United States, pre–World War II, was Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood," she told them.
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In D'Souza's film, poverty is a Democrat conspiracy and it's one on par with eugenics: Democrats are trying to prevent the propagation of non-white races.
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One idea was "shitting on 'moot' and 4chan," but he ultimately settled on writing about his support of eugenics for people like himself with genetic diseases.
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McHugh says Miller also directed her to stories from the website American Renaissance, another white nationalist publication, this one focused on eugenics and anti-black racism.
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These policy decisions were motivated in large part by concerns that heritable genome modification would exacerbate inequality and discrimination, and enable a new market-based eugenics.
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The idea likely comes from Epstein's well-known interest in transhumanism, a eugenics-like philosophy about enhancing the population by using modern technologies, The Times said.
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Epstein reportedly rubbed elbows with prominent scientists to pursue his interests in eugenics and cryogenicsEpstein was charged earlier this month with trafficking dozens of underage girls.
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"These are eugenics-era cases," said Samuel Bagenstos, a law professor at the University of Michigan specializing in disability rights and regulations, said of the citations.
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" As Cohen says, "eugenics was a movement of people who believed themselves to be inherently superior, and in Holmes it found a fitting judicial standard-bearer.
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He reached his peak in the 19193s, amid the rise of the Nazi party and cataclysmic racialism of The Third Reich, which was predicated on eugenics.
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Madison Grant's "The Passing of the Great Race", published in 1916, melded nativist sentiment with eugenics to produce a theory of white supremacy and "race suicide".
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The endeavor reached a low point with the rise of the eugenics movement, leading to many scientific and statistical methods that continue to be used today.
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But critics of Church&aposs idea said it&aposs reminscent of eugenics, a philosophy that promotes selective breeding to create a physically superior race of humans.
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Teachers and parents get impatient, Lee explains, and even use epithets; moreover, a tendentious intelligence hierarchy from the American eugenics movement still casts a long shadow.
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If social ills were caused by "feebleminded" people with bad genes, as many eugenics champions argued, why not make the world better by eliminating bad genes?
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Make no mistake: People have done very dumb things with IQ in the past, like the eugenics movement and arbitrary intelligence cutoffs for the death penalty.
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The Bladerunner's antagonists espouse the kind of idealistic extremism that drives countless anime plots; it's ripe for philosophical monologues delivered by Eugenics Control administrators and "Naturist" fanatics.
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Japan's "Eugenics Protection Law" came into effect in 1948 as it struggled with food shortages and rebuilding a war-ravaged nation, and was only revoked in 1996.
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Just as liberals should take responsibility for eugenics and other horrible crimes against blacks, we must be willing to own our part of our national sins. 85033.
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Earhardt is clearly the brainiest of the three co-hosts, if only because she can get through a broadcast without any notable malapropisms or endorsements of eugenics.
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The University of Arizona accepted more than $2202,2628 from the Pioneer Fund — a controversial foundation that promotes eugenics — according to records recently obtained by the Associated Press.
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A flaccid blend of eugenics, purloined children, memory-wiping gas and laughably unlikely scuffles, "Allegiant" (directed by Robert Schwentke) offers a weak bridge to the series' conclusion.
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When it became popular in the late 19th century, eugenics became the driving force behind a number of atrocities against many minority groups, including the Deaf community.
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Pedercini told me in an email that in Dogness, he was looking into the work of Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin and inventor of eugenics.
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The early 20th century, he noted, had brought us large-scale factories, efficient systems of transport, huge enterprises with disciplined work forces and pseudoscientific ideologies like eugenics.
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In New York, the American Nazi officer John Smith (Rufus Sewell) confronts the illness of his teenage son, whose life is forfeit under the regime's eugenics laws.
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Not helping matters was McMahan's declaration to a reporter that he would be open to publishing an article defending eugenics, if its arguments were of sufficient quality.
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And the whole eugenics movement, which was in the mainstream at the time and was considered by prominent mainstream people, she certainly was a part of that.
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In 1933, as eugenics was peaking in popularity, Donald Triplett, the first child to receive a diagnosis of autism in America, was born to an educated Mississippi couple.
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What would science look like if our attention to debunking modern strands of eugenics intersected with debunking white, heteronormative, and cis-privileged notions of gender binaries and constructs?
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The two men and a woman are among at least 16,500 people who were given unconsented sterilization while the 1948 Eugenics Protection Law was in place until 1996.
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Many of the critics were concerned about the way that power structures, like racism and sexism, had historically twisted scientific inquiry (eugenics and Nazi race science, for example).
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"We know enough about eugenics so that if that knowledge were applied, the defective classes would disappear within a decade," University of Wisconsin president Charles Van Hise opined.
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" Pope Francis this year denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families "to accept the children that God gives them.
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But where some see a new form of medicine that eliminates genetic disease, others see a slippery slope to enhancements, designer babies and a new form of eugenics.
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From the late 1800s through the early 1900s, the eugenics movement in the United States and Europe believed that the physical body held the key to the soul.
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Flabby, weak, a frustrated musician tormented by latent homosexual desires, Fuller becomes fascinated by the eugenics movement and its tantalizing promise of a world filled with superior men.
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Many scientists and ethicists are concerned about CRISPR technology being abused to perpetuate eugenics or create "designer babies" if used on embryos meant to be carried to term.
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But the specter of the field's ignominious past, which includes support for the American eugenics movement, looms large for many geneticists in light of today's white identity politics.
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Hume leads briskly to Darwin, then Nietzsche, then eugenics and fascism and existentialism and postmodernism and intersectionality, and here we are, kowtowing to the "knowing falsehood" of transgenderism.
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Past, present and future share visual and narrative space as the histories of poisons, eugenics, home-loan guidelines and forensic science coalesce like iron filings around a magnet.
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It is the birthplace of Pope Francis, the leader of the world's Catholics, who recently denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program.
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So I enlisted an African-American faculty member in my department to argue in favor of eugenics while I argued against; halfway through the debate, we switched sides.
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Inside the capsule is a steel helmet that displays, on a smartphone, images relating to Paul Popenoe, who in the 1920s advocated the now-debunked theory of eugenics.
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Dr. Tanton fell further out of favor when it emerged that FAIR had secretly accepted more than $2500 million from the Pioneer Fund, a group that embraced eugenics.
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He was ambitious, a shrewd manipulator of the media, and he knew how to attract the support of wealthy patrons to spread his eugenics ideas to powerful politicians.
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In other words, it's a dating app for eugenics—the disturbing ideological practice of systematically discriminating against people based on genetic qualities judged to be undesirable or inferior.
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Dr. Tanton fell further out of favor when it emerged that FAIR had secretly accepted more than $2500 million from the Pioneer Fund, a group that embraced eugenics.
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This belief led to the appalling eugenics experiments of the early 20th century, and in the decades since it has been thoroughly debunked by the mainstream scientific establishment.
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One fireside storyteller discusses the origins of a smear campaign against Pinelands residents in the early days of American eugenics, which branded them as inbred and intellectually bereft.
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But going from MRT to eugenics is a bit of a leap, particularly because the mitochondria only have 37 genes, which mostly lead to proteins specifically involved with metabolism.
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But then-Museum director Henry Fairfield Osborn (a promoter of eugenics and immigration restrictions) waged a five-year campaign to get it and defeat those who wanted it upstate.
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Only Justice Clarence Thomas would not be restrained, penning a 20-page tirade associating women who choose to end their pregnancies with the eugenics movement of the 20th-century.
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Thomas, for one, has openly compared abortion to eugenics; he has declared that "our abortion jurisprudence has spiraled out of control" and that the undue-burden standard is unconstitutional.
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The promotion of eugenics has largely died out of the mainstream narrative over the past century, and Planned Parenthood provides a number of services beyond birth control and abortion.
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The polemic was prompted by a Philadelphia man's proposal to gather the most intelligent parrots and to breed them in a program that sounds a bit like avian eugenics.
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Epstein's dual interest in furthering his own DNA and "improving" the human gene pool plays into the biggest criticism of the transhumanist ideology: that it's on par with eugenics.
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He, along with other scholars and politicians of his day, openly embraced eugenics when discussing the nation's immigration problem and claimed Jews were trying to control US immigration policy.
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Chief Justice William Howard Taft had ties to the eugenics movement, and four of the associate justices constituted a reactionary clique later nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
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Holmes's enthusiastic embrace of eugenics must be the product of his time, not an expression of the distinctive contempt that he considered as proof of his own tough-mindedness.
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The authorities also found medical devices associated with the Nazis' eugenics programs, including a tool used to measure people's heads as a way of assessing their supposed racial purity.
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His portrayal of Eve recycles Romantic stereotypes of the eternal feminine, and his call to produce "healthier, more beautiful, more musical human beings" smacks of early-twentieth-century eugenics.
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Moral and cultural arguments against migration were also common, not only among the partisans of eugenics (like Schumpeter) and racial purity (like Cecil Rhodes) but even among top economists.
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In Control, she exposes the dark, and rarely discussed, legacy of eugenics in the United States — racialized sterilization programs used to further silence victims typically in mental institutions or prison.
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Germany was paying attention, they adopted it, and it wasn't until the end of World War II that the idea of eugenics was finally realized to be so obviously bad.
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Before it was revoked, an estimated 25,000 people were sterilized, with at least 16,500 not having given consent to procedures a eugenics panel could approve, often after a cursory review.
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But if we collectively paint all human genetic engineering with the brush of Nazi eugenics, we could kill the incredible potential of genetics technologies to help us live healthier lives.
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And conservative Justice Clarence Thomas wrote his own opinion about sex- and race-selective abortion, calling it "a tool of modern-day eugenics" and reiterating his opposition to abortion generally.
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The next country, he proclaims, was, of course, Nazi Germany—neglecting to add that this was part of a eugenics programme targeted at whoever the Nazis saw as genetically inferior.
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Aside from preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Daar told me that lack of access to IVF has revived early-20th-century eugenics ideas that some are better fit to reproduce than others.
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De la Pena's work has covered everything from California's early 20th-century eugenics program to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, but her Sundance pieces are both variations on a theme.
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A year later, he argued in Parliament for the introduction of forced labor camps for "mental defectives"; a year after that, he attended the first International Eugenics Conference in London.
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In a Sacramento government office, historian and lead author Alexandra Minna Stern stumbled across a filing cabinet containing about 21926,256 recommendations for eugenics-motivated sterilizations dating from 260 through 2000.
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No matter what the intention of parents, might genetic selection of children become a form of liberal or not-so-liberal Eugenics that challenges the moral core of our humanity?
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis denounced abortion on Saturday as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families to accept the children that God gives them.
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Of the estimated 25,000 people sterilized during this time, at least 16,500 did not give consent - unneeded if a eugenics board signed off on it after an often cursory review.
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However that approach quickly drew criticism after a "superforecaster" hired as part of Cumming's plan resigned following criticism of his past comments on the benefits of eugenics and forced contraception.
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She had been sent to an institution for the feebleminded to hide a pregnancy resulting from sexual abuse, only to find herself caught up in the state's new eugenics law.
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It did not agree until this year to pay compensation to thousands of people with disabilities who were forcibly sterilised under a eugenics law that was only repealed in 1996.
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There was, for one thing, the need to repudiate the first half of the 20th century, during which science textbooks were replete with racial stereotypes and uncritical references to eugenics.
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Others were deemed ineligible because they had been sterilized by county welfare offices and not the state eugenics program, said Bob Bollinger, a lawyer who represented some of those victims.
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The Museum (center of the American eugenics movement in the early years of the twentieth century) now pays tribute to his conservationist efforts, without acknowledging the link to those racialist beliefs.
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He quoted Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who wrote in the early 20th century about how the eugenics movement could embrace birth control to serve its purposes and shape the population.
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The entire film was to have a very ham-fisted political bent, drawing lines between the eugenics programs of the Nazis to the abortion and contraception advocates that were to come.
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The writer-director first garnered attention for his debut feature, Gattaca, a science fiction drama portraying a future where genetically preferable citizens enjoy superior standing in a eugenics-fueled caste system.
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According to Alexandra Stern, a professor who specializes in the history of eugenics and justice, doctors in the state of California sterilized about 20,000 men and women in the mid-1900s.
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This question literally came to a head when American white nationalist leader (and outspoken eugenics supporter) Richard Spencer was punched in Washington during an interview following President Trump's inauguration on Friday.
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" Furthermore, the mall would allow them to find their "ideal victims"—for James, "middle-aged Christian woman;" and for Souvannarath, who was obsessed with eugenics, "anybody that was particular dysgenetic looking.
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"Today, it still funds studies of race and intelligence, as well as eugenics, the 'science' of breeding superior human beings that was discredited by various Nazi atrocities," according to The SPLC.
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Residents of the Pine Barrens were deemed outcasts and criminals in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially after the publication of a bogus eugenics study published in the early 20th century.
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"Similarly, CNN host S.E. Cupp in a tweet said, "Let's just state for the record: talking about needing 'population control' through ABORTION for the sake of CLIMATE is talking about EUGENICS.
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The bogus science of eugenics and fears of importing radical, "foreign ideologies" inspired the 1924 National Origins Act, which slammed shut the "golden door" through which millions had found safe haven.
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And without that framework — if the only premise available is the one Thanos presents — then his position is indeed rational, even necessary, despite being brutal and tied to real-world eugenics.
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MATTHEW LEESESheffield A notion of "the people", or Volk, was the driving force of modern German nationalism, an ethnic vision that laid the foundation for the sickening justifications of Nazi eugenics.
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For decades, psychologists have been leery about associating personality traits with physical characteristics, because of the lasting taint of phrenology and eugenics; studying faces this way was, in essence, a taboo.
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"The current leadership of this country is utilizing rhetoric and messaging that's very similar to the ways that scientists and engineers of eugenics were doing so at that time," she says.
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"Human Raw Material" in particular appears to refer to a passage in Haraway's Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, which specifically discusses the possibility of eugenics in human engineering.
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Thomas' argument is that because abortion and birth control could be manipulated for this purpose, the state's compelling interest to prevent eugenics should supersede an individual woman's right to access an abortion.
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Thomas brings eugenics into the discussion as a clear signal to the anti-choice movement that more extreme arguments will be needed to persuade the court to consider overturning abortion en masse.
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One was notes from a meeting, an illuminating read that contained nuggets like: "Still need brilliant and talented men who want to wear hoods and discuss eugenics in their spare time" And.
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The entire field of genetics has had to work hard to dissociate itself from the now-debunked "race science" and eugenics movements of the early 20th century, and that work isn't over.
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Sanger has been hailed as one of the most influential people in women's history, though she's also a controversial figure for her support of eugenics (which Jones addresses in her own work).
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But as new technologies more recently began to revolutionize the human reproduction process and create new tools for assessing, selecting, or genetically engineering preimplanted embryos, many critics raised the specter of eugenics.
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Dozens of brains and brain parts belonging to victims of the Nazi eugenics campaign—and possibly the Holocaust—have been uncovered during renovations at the Max Planck Psychiatric Institute in Munich, Germany.
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Medical doctors supported eugenics groups organizing temporary exhibits comparing hair and skulls from different apes and nonwhite humans, underscoring popular notions about the supposedly primitive nature of those outside of Western civilization.
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Skewed access to the kind of treatment Allison considered is already creating a tiered genetic system, according to Judith Daar, a law professor at UC Irvine and author of The New Eugenics.
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Some CRISPR critics also have argued that gene-editing may give way to eugenics and to allowing embryos to be edited with certain features in order to develop so-called designer babies.
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So long to social mobility, so long to life-saving medical care, so long to any illusion of equality: Republicans will accomplish what the eugenics movement sought to do so long ago.
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Asperger worked at the University Pediatric Clinic in Vienna, at a time when children with significant disabilities who were deemed a burden to the state were covertly "euthanized," according to Nazi eugenics.
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Bell has not been overruled, however, is that no American state or local jurisdiction in the present era engages in the abominable practice of involuntary sterilization based on thoroughly discredited eugenics theories.
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Some CRISPR critics also have argued that gene editing may give way to eugenics and to allowing embryos to be edited with certain features in order to develop so-called designer babies.
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The political climate was prepared by intellectuals with clear-cut racial theories, such as Brooks Adams, a Boston Brahmin friend of Roosevelt, and Charles B. Davenport, the leading American exponent of eugenics.
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Vermont was also home to one of the most notorious government eugenics projects, a program that, among others, targeted the same Native American population who had shared maple technology with white settlers.
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Burroughs, who was also a fan of eugenics, died in 1950 — too soon to see his creation become the wokest, swollest bae in the jungle in new film The Legend of Tarzan.
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" Referring to the evils of eugenics and other state-sponsored killing programs, the brief argues that Ohio's law "wards against the slippery slope to medical involvement in race- or sex-based abortions.
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"You hear people talking about how this will make us treat children as commodities and make people more intolerant of people with disabilities and lead to eugenics and all that," she said.
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Activity: Debating the Potential Benefits and Dangers of "Genetic Engineering" Have students read columns by Nicholas Kristof and Ross Douthat offering competing viewpoints on the merits of genetic engineering and medical eugenics.
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So Pincus and Rock looked to Puerto Rico, where concerns about overpopulation fueled in part by the eugenics movement meant there were no birth control restrictions and abortion was legal on the island.
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Making clear the conceptual origins of these actions lay in scientifically and medically legitimated eugenics, medical professionals oversaw the murder of an ever-widening group of undesirables in "gassing installations" around the country.
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Although eugenics laws were finally scrapped from the books only in the 1960s in the United States and the 1970s in Canada and Sweden, very few people were forcibly sterilized after the war.
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" It also publishes the academic-sounding journal Occidental Quarterly, which featured Regnery's "For Our Children's Children" speech in its first issue and has articles such as "The Case for Eugenics in a Nutshell.
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The fable also allowed its audience to avert its eyes from the marginalization of Asian and Latinx labor populations, the racialization of Southern European and Eastern European immigrants, and the rise of eugenics.
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"Involuntary celibate" mass shooter Elliot Rodger, who may have helped inspire this week's massacre in Toronto, advocated a bizarre eugenics program where men would evolve to a higher form by killing all women.
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And where fears of budget cuts and eugenics intersect, some worry about the threat of mandatory cochlear implantation, via which deaf students could theoretically be integrated into hearing schools at a lower cost.
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The development of gene-altering technologies, once the stuff of sci-fi movies, should prompt us to realize that eugenics is no longer a thing of the past -- or of a fictional future.
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It even managed to deepen the dispute by refusing to say that Mr. Johnson rejects eugenics, the widely dismissed field whose proponents advocate discouraging reproduction by people deemed to have undesirable genetic traits.
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Ware prefaces a reading of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's feminist writings with a photograph of Gilman's death mask, whose ghostly visage haunts a discussion of her lesser-known anti-immigrant and pro-eugenics politics.
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But still, that was almost 50 years ago: Today feminist arguments are clearly dominant, population-control arguments are in relative abeyance, and the pro-choice consensus officially abjures both racism and authoritarian eugenics.
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MRB specifically calls out his role in the Spanish-American War, which led to the US's annexation of Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines as well as his staunch endorsement of eugenics.
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"He is tying eugenics to particular reproductive technologies -- here abortion -- instead of recognizing that eugenic laws robbed women of their ability to make their own reproductive decisions -- the state decided for them," Schoen said.
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" 'More heat than light' Thomas, who wrote a 20-page opinion concurring in the majority's decision yet warning that abortion could lead to eugenics, asserted in a footnote that Ginsburg's dissent "makes little sense.
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The conversation is heated: For every tweet about how mixed-race kids are the future or key to ending racism, there's a quote tweet asking people to stop using children as a eugenics experiment.
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During that time, an estimated 25,000 people were sterilized, with at least 16,500 not giving consent, which the eugenics board could order if it signed off on the procedures after an often cursory review.
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The very best essay-style documentary I saw this year was Theo Anthony's Rat Film, which explores "redlining," eugenics, and Baltimore's racial history through the lens of the city's most notorious rodent, the rat.
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Once the Eugenics Wars were over, and Zefram Cochrane had invented the warp drive, surely humanity would find a way to eliminate awkwardness, along with war, intolerance, avarice, superstition, and other pressing social ills.
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Tech watchdogs have also raised concerns around the prospect of people making cosmetic edits to the genomes of their unborn children in the future, arguing it could lead to a new form of eugenics.
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They are also campaigning for a government apology and an acknowledgement of Germany's history of state-sanctioned sterility and other forms of eugenics deployed against marginalized groups from the Nazi era to the present.
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What It's Like to Be Black on Campus Now [The Nation] Behind the Criminal Immigration Law: Eugenics and White Supremacy [ProPublica] Brown Existence Anxiety [The Baffler] We publish many articles that touch on race.
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Between 1909 and 1979, about 20,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in California — one of 33 states where compulsory sterilization in the name of eugenics and social well-being was legal in the 20th century.
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In 2013, North Carolina became the first state in the country to pass a law intended to compensate the surviving victims among the 7,600 people who were sterilized under a decades-long eugenics program.
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Psychiatry has had a checkered past: Witness its collusion in Nazi eugenics policies, Soviet political repression and the involuntary confinement in mental hospitals of dissidents and religious groups in the People's Republic of China.
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Married at 14 and widowed at 15, Tyler spent her early 30s as part of the "better babies" movement, a scientific approach to parenthood that sat at the intersection of public health and eugenics.
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But it's also a smart one, because Orphan Black is one of the only shows on the air that could tackle the personal, scientific, and societal implications of eugenics with any kind of depth.
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"Enshrining a constitutional right to an abortion based solely on the race, sex, or disability of an unborn child, as Planned Parenthood advocates, would constitutionalize the views of the 20th-century eugenics movement," Thomas wrote.
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Where other countries opt to limit childbirth or kill the elderly, the US turns its education system into a eugenics program by holding an annual K-203 exam and killing the "parasites" who fail it.
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" In other words, many Christians saw in the Evans case an example of secularism run rampant, in which the sanctity of life is replaced with the quasi-eugenics of deciding whose life is "worth living.
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Some early abortion advocates in the US were — as pro-life activists today are extremely eager to point out — also proponents of eugenics, with Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger being perhaps the most famous example.
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Although eugenics would later accrue sinister connotations, many of the early adopters of eugenic theories were American progressives who believed science could be used to guide social policies and create a better society for all.
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But the original Von Luschan's scale was also used as a defense of eugenics, a way to definitively separate "white" from "non-white" in the forced sterilizations committed by the German Society for Racial Hygiene.
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The early history of immigration policy in America, as told by the historian Douglas C. Baynton in DEFECTIVES IN THE LAND: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics (University of Chicago, $35), suggests so.
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While Pope Francis hasn't addressed the legislation directly, he did speak out strongly against abortion just days after the bill was approved by the lower house -- comparing abortion to avoid birth defects to Nazi eugenics.
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Whether it's forced sterilization, experimentation, eugenics, or treatments to keep us small and manageable, removing our right to control our bodies, our personhood, has been common practice by the "well-meaning" nondisabled public for centuries.
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One of the "researchers" at the camp was Eugen Fischer, a physician who later founded an institute in Berlin that taught eugenics and trained Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor who performed human experiments at Auschwitz.
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Their caution is understandable; too many times over the last century, science has entered the courtroom heralding "advanced techniques" — forced sterilizations, eugenics, lobotomies and finally wildly misapplied psychopharmacological drugs — that have proved curses, not cures.
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"We denounce eugenics in all forms for the same reason we are working to fight abortion bans across the country," said Melanie Newman, senior vice president of communications and culture for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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"In arguing that Indiana's law that bans abortion based solely on race, disability or sex, could one day pass legal muster, Thomas is harkening back to the eugenics movement of the early 20th century," she said.
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His most recent video called for Bernie Sanders to host a 2020 town hall with adoption advocates about adoptee rights, and to speak about the history of eugenics and human rights abuses in the adoption industry.
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Alex Jones has spread conspiracies about everything from 9/11 ("an inside job") to the Gates Foundation ("a eugenics operation") to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School ("it's actors playing different parts of different people").
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The Times reported that Epstein often exaggerated his intellect and scientific prowess when he interacted with members of an elite scientific community and that he used his connections to delve into subjects like eugenics and cryogenics.
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That, my friends, is a description of eugenics—the pseudoscience that rose in the latter half of the 19th century as a byproduct of extrapolating Darwin's theory of natural selection into the realm of human development.
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Japan: More than 20 years after it repealed a eugenics law, the country has agreed to compensate victims of a decades-long government program that forcibly sterilized people with intellectual disabilities, mental illness and genetic disorders.
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The historical relationship between progressive politics and various evils — racism, anti-Semitism, imperialism, eugenics, authoritarianism — that liberals prefer to pin exclusively on the right is complicated and sometimes damning, and that ideological history shapes progressivism still.
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Despite the profession's nominal commitment to rational investigation of the universe's deeper truths, scientists were also involved in the Tuskegee experiment, the eugenics movement, disinformation about tobacco, lead, sugar, pesticides … Enlightenment thinking doesn't always guarantee enlightenment.
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Lee is right that we're in the thick of eugenics almost the moment we acquiesce to the implausible conceit of fixed Intelligenzquotient, as the phantom human quality was originally dubbed in Germany in the early 1900s.
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Increasingly suspicious and scared, Chris eventually falls victim to a community-wide plot to abduct black men and women and fuse their brains with those of older white men and women in a horrific eugenics experiment.
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These claims speak to real fears about racism in the medical system, calling back to the unethical harms of the Tuskegee study and the days when women of color were forcibly sterilized by state eugenics programs.
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Eugenics was once an accepted scientific field led by white natural historians and biologists who used flawed scientific methods to separate humans into different, genetically distinct groupings, or "races," on the basis of phenotype, morphology, and intelligence.
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In 2018, for instance, speakers who maintain that women are too intellectually feeble to vote, or who advocate eugenics, are unlikely to receive invitations even from impish contrarians; both were mainstream positions in the fairly recent past.
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But Churchill's passion for eugenics indicated a much deeper abhorrence for anybody who didn't fit the ideal of the cheery white Englishman who woke up with a cup of Twining's and colonized India in time for supper.
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The group was the brainchild of John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist who developed an interest in eugenics after hearing about "a local pair of sisters who have nine illegitimate children between them," as he wrote in 1969.
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There is much to admire in the book; it does soar high above the fundamental ideas of genetics and molecular biology, the role of genes in behavior and the social misuse of these ideas in eugenics movements.
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Bell To the Editor: David Oshinsky concludes his review of Adam Cohen's "Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck" (March 20) with the observation, following Cohen, that the decision in Buck v.
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Francis Galton, a key figure in the eugenics movement, created elaborate composite photographs and lineage charts to figure out where disability, lack of character, and criminality could lie in the shape of the face and the body.
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The early progressives assumed they could achieve these "improvements" through data, science, and institutional expertise; their veneration of administrative efficiency led them to support conservation, which was one progressive value, as well as eugenics, which was another.
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Mr. Reynolds said he agreed that the text shows hints of Whitman's later turn toward ethnographic pseudoscience (a kind of "pre-eugenics," Mr. Reynolds said), a topic that has received substantial attention from scholars in recent years.
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Warnick's titles for the pieces reference Francis Galton, a pioneer of eugenics, and here he's keenly flipped the racist theory on its head by suggesting that white supremacy could be something that's not just learned but hereditary.
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Richter knew that his aunt died of starvation due to the Nazi eugenics campaign but was apparently unaware of the connection between his aunt and his father-in-law until an investigative journalist reported it in 2004.
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" But he took the research to a troubling conclusion and "argued repeatedly for the need for the state or its wiser citizens to seek to encourage the best to outbreed the rest," ultimately coining the term "eugenics.
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Likewise, in the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of Native American women were sterilized without consent, and a California eugenics law forced or coerced thousands of sterilizations of women (and men) of Mexican descent in the 20th century.
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Admittedly this choice is an unpopular one that could be spun by pundits as eugenics, but it is a personal one that mothers should have as to the life they would like their unborn child to have.
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The news, paired with the release of a lengthy statement from Justice Clarence Thomas describing the risk of "eugenics," was an acute reminder to disabled people of their frequent role as objects, not people, in this debate.
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The Roosevelt monument by James Earle Fraser could be profitably displayed alongside Fraser's The End of the Trail in the Metropolitan Museum, for example, so that viewers could explore how race and eugenics were visualized in the period.
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During a period of leave from Harvard in 1915, Gould worked for the Eugenics Office in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, which dispatched him on a research expedition to measure the skulls of Native Americans in North Dakota.
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Why Breeding Pedigree Dogs Is Just Eugenics By Another NameEugenics is the now-defunct (and creepy!) practice of breeding supposedly superior humans to…Read more ReadSkull shape tends to be fairly consistent in the various species of mammals.
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This act—for which anti-immigration and eugenics proponents such as the Immigration Restriction League (IRL) had lobbied for decades—barred "idiots, imbeciles, epileptics, alcoholics, poor, criminals, beggars, any person suffering attacks of insanity" from entering the country.
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Bell had nothing to do with eugenics, social Darwinism, restrictive immigration or the hate mongering of the K.K.K. The decision addressed a simple question: Does government have the right to stop behavior that places a burden on society?
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So did the staged readings in its playwrights festival, raising issues like the squeezing of the working class (Caridad Svich's "Red Bike") and the ugly history of eugenics in the United States (William Baer's "Three Generations of Imbeciles").
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In addition to world-changing statistical concepts (correlation, regression toward the mean), Galton came up with the term "eugenics" and then practiced what he preached, hoping, for example, to keep those without superior ability or inheritance from procreating.
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It's an apt comparison in the eyes of black anti-abortion activists, many of whom argue that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was a supporter of eugenics who, some say, worked to intentionally lower the black birth rate.
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There are a lot of ethical questions to consider with regards to self-driving cars, like whether we have confidence in them, who they should kill when faced with that grim choice, if they might fuel eugenics, and more.
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Starring a slick-haired Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman at her most serene, Gattaca is a deserved cult classic, a highlight in the hubristic-humans-playing-God subgenre, the urtext for any discussion of the slippery slope toward eugenics.
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"Long used to assign criminality, deviancy, and primitiveness to people of color, and the poor, physiognomy was deeply entwined with the rise of eugenics in the 1920s and '30s, which shaped U.S. cultures from law to beauty," she wrote.
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But it pivots from that emotional spot to an agile analysis of racism as "an old-world idea" manufactured by elites, from Harvard professors who propagated eugenics or the clash of civilizations to leading environmental and reproductive rights organizations.
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"The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland," the single-channel version is a kind of Aboriginal-futurist work that loosely follows the story of Aiden, an Indigenous boy taken from his parents at birth by scientists conducting a eugenics experiment.
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THE GUARDED GATE Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians and Other European Immigrants Out of America By Daniel Okrent Today's vehement demands to stop immigrants are neither new nor proportional to their numbers.
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By contrast, Bill Gates is running a mass eugenics effort through his charitable work, and the HIV epidemic was actually created by the American government (which has incidentally been part of a Russian disinformation campaign about the US government).
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A Tennessee judge offered dozens of inmates about a month off their sentence if they'd undergo surgical sterilization, and many agreed to it, in what critics argued amounted to a eugenics program and a blatant violation of constitutional rights.
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Advocates of eugenics alleged that unscientific breeding was responsible for the woes of the world: it weakened society by encouraging 'inferior' classes and races and 'feeble' or 'mentally defective' individuals to spawn children as weak and useless as their parents.
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The idea that certain human groups are undesirable and should be removed from the face of the planet would later find favor with Hitler, who drew on eugenics to justify the extermination of millions of Jews and other stigmatized people.
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" In showcasing the diversity of Black American culture and physical features, Du Bois directly challenged racist depictions underlying eugenics, such as those of natural historians Josiah Clark Nott (who personally enslaved Black peoples) and George Robert Gliddon's "Types of Mankind.
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But he really gets going when it comes to the embrace of euthanasia by the late 19th/early 20th century eugenics movement, which viewed the practice as a way to, often involuntarily, prevent the proliferation of "feeble-minded" people in society.
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As forensic anthropologist and bioarchaeologist Kristina Killgrove noted to me: The basic ridge pattern of fingerprints was discovered in 1823, but popularized later in the 19th century by Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin, who was interested in heredity, race — and eugenics.
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The second cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton not only coined the term "eugenics" but was also a notorious racist who believed in the existence of higher and lower races, using his fingerprint research to hammer home ostensible differences in races.
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At the time of his speech, Galton was already 35 years deep into a career promoting what he termed "eugenics," the idea that the human race could improve itself through selective breeding—through propagating good traits and quarantining the bad ones.
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In Australia, Pearson's social Darwinism was amplified by media barons like Keith Murdoch (father of Rupert and a stalwart of the eugenics movement) and institutionalized in a "White Australia" policy that restricted "colored" migration for most of the 20th century.
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Two of the paintings, "Method One" and "Method Two," feature the sinister calipers used by advocates of eugenics, referencing the well-documented racism that played a role in the state's decision to remove the islanders and institutionalize several of them.
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"If they are having a good time in the fresh air, which the advocates of eugenics tell them is better for them than reading books, it is very difficult to get them back to books," a publisher lamented to The Times.
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TOKYO — More than 2450 years after it repealed a eugenics law, Japan has agreed to compensate victims of a decades-long government program under which thousands of people were forcibly sterilized because of intellectual disabilities, mental illness or genetic disorders.
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In the twentieth century, at the peak of the eugenics movement, the results of IQ tests were weaponized against people of color—who are structurally subject to reduced opportunity in society—to justify racism, bigotry, stratified opportunity, and forced sterilization.
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Passed during the eugenics hysteria of the early 1920s, the law was one of several attempts by Virginia's lawmakers to draw an impossible line between the races in a society where interracial sex and biracial descendants had long been common.
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In the early 20th century, when immigration from eastern and southern Europe stoked Anglo-American anxiety over racial purity, California became a leader in the so-called eugenics movement aimed at preserving white identity through forced sterilization of social undesirables.
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During German rule in Namibia, called South-West Africa back then, colonial officers studying eugenics developed ideas on racial purity, and their forces tried to exterminate two rebellious ethnic groups, the Herero and Nama, some of them in concentration camps.
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And across the Atlantic, they found it in an entire system of race-based caste laws and practices: America's Jim Crow segregation, citizenship laws, and anti-miscegenation laws; the doctrine of Manifest Destiny that masked a genocide; the wholehearted embrace of eugenics.
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The two organizations were founded by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who has openly embraced eugenics, the science of improving the genetic quality of the human population by encouraging selective breeding and at times, advocating for the sterilization of genetically undesirable groups.
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The GOP may loathe the term—indeed conservatives often accuse liberal abortion supporters of being the real eugenicists—but the party's agenda in many ways channels the spirit of eugenics, even if it does not accept the theory in a literal sense.
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My initial reluctance to in any way criticize parents striving to serve the needs of their children under immensely challenging circumstances gave way to the haunting realization that the surgical and endocrine interventions conducted by these specialists is nothing short of eugenics.
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Among these are paintings of young Kurt with his aunt Elisabeth; his uncle Günther in a Wehrmacht uniform; his father-in-law's passport photos; an SS doctor, who was the head of the Nazi eugenics program, as he is led away in handcuffs.
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The cultural implications may be just as disturbing: Some experts have warned that unregulated genetic engineering may lead to a new form of eugenics, in which people with means pay to have children with enhanced traits even as those with disabilities are devalued.
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Eugenics is the science of selective and controlled breeding in an effort to increase human characteristics and traits deemed desirable Other conservatives voices on social media also criticized the remarks by Sanders, who is a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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And as our country buckles under the pressure of a white-supremacist president, who has bragged extensively about his "good genes" and whose children say he believes in the "race-horse theory" of eugenics, maybe Gattaca wasn't that far-fetched after all.
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In it, a confluence of overpopulation, advanced surveillance, and computerized records has ushered in a totalitarian eugenics experiment: anyone who needs medical treatment must submit to sterilization, since the government has concluded that a sick or injured person is by definition unfit to reproduce.
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At the conference, Happer also spoke with World Alternative Media, a YouTube channel that has pushed conspiracy theories about the 9/11 terrorist attacks and claimed the government was hiding the cure for cancer and leading a eugenics program to prevent people from staying healthy.
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Boas witnessed the legalization of Jim Crow; the widespread acceptance of social Darwinism and eugenics; imperial expansion, including the American occupation of the Philippines; drastic restrictions on immigration; the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan; and the coming to power of Adolf Hitler.
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Major research institutes like Cold Spring Harbor, funded by the likes of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the Kellogg Race Betterment Foundation, provided a scientific underpinning for a progressive eugenics movement growing in popularity as a genetic determinism swept the country.
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The Trump administration, in its actions against immigrants and refugees and in its erasure of the role anti-Semitism played in the Holocaust, displayed a dangerous dismissal of the role eugenics played in discussions of immigration in the 1930s and continues to play today.
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According to the author Daniel Okrent, who is researching a book about immigration and eugenics in the early 20th century, Goddard took pains to emphasize that a moron could look "normal" — an "extremely potent" concept, Mr. Okrent said, in feeding the era's rampant xenophobia.
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To the Editor: Re "When America Built Another Kind of Wall" (Sunday Review, May 5): Daniel Okrent's article seems to suggest that Maxwell Perkins, the "celebrated editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway," used his status to promote Madison Grant's agenda of racial eugenics.
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The same individuals who are making these eugenics claims are often the ones who want to deprive our communities of evidence-based education like teen-pregnancy prevention programs, which were cut across the country last year, and a full range of reproductive-health services.
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Goddard helped to popularize eugenics in the United States in a best-selling but inaccurate book about Emma (in which he gave her the pseudonym Deborah Kallikak), using a largely fictitious genealogy to cement intelligence and virtue in the public mind as Mendelian traits.
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But critics of Church&aposs idea said it&aposs reminscent of eugenics, a philosophy that promotes selective breeding to create a physically superior race of humans, and one that was popularized by Nazis during the second World War to create a "pure" master race.
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The fact that Epstein was able to retain his famous "collection" of friends despite talking openly about using himself as the center of a eugenics experiment may be a testament to his influence, to his associates' ability to look the other way, or both.
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