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In reply to the discussion: Trump wanted to FRAME innocent Americans. [View all]Kid Berwyn
(14,904 posts)17. "It Can't Happen Here"
Yet, it has.
The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics
by Edwin Black
Edwin Black is the one author of "IBM and the Holocaust" and "War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race," from which the following article is drawn.
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-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 racist pseudoscience determined to wipe 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 twenty-seven 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.
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https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
The wheels of justice do grind slowly. Americas supporters of autocrats and the other sick minds wont realize theyre expendable until its too late. Then they find themselves running interference on the firing line.
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He always believes he can get away with it because he has always gotten away with his crimes.
hedda_foil
Dec 2019
#7
he's getting away wih shit now because americans let 1500 radio stations make
certainot
Dec 2019
#23
Yep. 24/7/365. Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham, Savage, and dozens of proteges. Smear and fear works.
Evolve Dammit
Dec 2019
#29
Oh, and throw Mike Pence in there too since he ably filled in for "Nazi Salute Ingraham" on her show
Evolve Dammit
Dec 2019
#31
Nice chart. A Manfort pick to the point they held up Drumpf's jet to make the meeting happen.
Evolve Dammit
Dec 2019
#55
lmbaughs been calling for brennan and other 'deep state' 'actors' like obama to be
certainot
Dec 2019
#25
He campaigned on the promise of locking up his political opponents, and still got millions of votes.
Midnight Writer
Dec 2019
#2
If he wins in 2020, I have no doubt that Barr will indeed lock up his political opponents.
hedda_foil
Dec 2019
#8
Are corruption investigations normally started off with a public announcement? I thought
brewens
Dec 2019
#3
Let's hope he doesn't replace the current FBI Director (as per William Webster)
Cetacea
Dec 2019
#21
Great picture, lovely complexion. If it was anyone else the paramedics would be called
captain queeg
Dec 2019
#41
We're all getting better at sharply framing and titling issues. Good to see.
empedocles
Dec 2019
#52