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It's eugenics: the CDC you knew is over
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— Marlena (#felon47 is NOT my President) âŒðŸ‘‘ (@ohpleeznotagain.bsky.social) 2025-08-29T21:23:09.432Z
I agree 💯. RFKjr scares me to death!
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Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection
Where the world-famous NAZI Steve Bannon got his schtick.
Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection
by Edwin Black
Sunday, November 9, 2003
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race.
But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed at "improving" the human race. In its extreme, racist form, this meant wiping away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in 27 states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the 20th century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little-known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles Goethe, as well as members of the California state Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.
Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.
CONTINUED...
Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110623233349/https://waragainsttheweak.com/offSiteArchive/www.sfgate.com/index.html
ORIGINAL NOW BROKEN LINK: http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/offSiteArchive/www.sfgate.com/index.html
Alternate working link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520961944-008/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoo81GHe_5Bj7jNNlCEA3E6NGF2UGozrwUKOZbK3ieipk5geHTE3
PS: Thank you, Heidi! This is an example of the kind of information that is fast-disappearing from the Internet -- Truth.
Where the world-famous NAZI Steve Bannon got his schtick.
Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection
by Edwin Black
Sunday, November 9, 2003
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a so-called Master Race.
But the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little-known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.
Eugenics was the pseudoscience aimed at "improving" the human race. In its extreme, racist form, this meant wiping away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype. Elements of the philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in 27 states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
California was considered an epicenter of the American eugenics movement. During the 20th century's first decades, California's eugenicists included potent but little-known race scientists, such as Army venereal disease specialist Dr. Paul Popenoe, citrus magnate Paul Gosney, Sacramento banker Charles Goethe, as well as members of the California state Board of Charities and Corrections and the University of California Board of Regents.
Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists from such prestigious universities as Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims.
CONTINUED...
Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110623233349/https://waragainsttheweak.com/offSiteArchive/www.sfgate.com/index.html
ORIGINAL NOW BROKEN LINK: http://www.waragainsttheweak.com/offSiteArchive/www.sfgate.com/index.html
Alternate working link: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520961944-008/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoo81GHe_5Bj7jNNlCEA3E6NGF2UGozrwUKOZbK3ieipk5geHTE3
PS: Thank you, Heidi! This is an example of the kind of information that is fast-disappearing from the Internet -- Truth.
Octafish! What the hell?! 
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