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In reply to the discussion: Holy shit. Master race eugenics rhetoric here. This was how the Holocaust was started. Don't ignore. [View all]handmade34
(22,756 posts)42. Vermont played a large part in the eugenics movement...
some history in the U.S....
As the concept of eugenics took hold, prominent citizens, scientists and socialists championed the cause and established the Eugenics Record Office. The office tracked families and their genetic traits, claiming most people considered unfit were immigrants, minorities or poor....
...in 1910...founded the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, and appointed Harry H. Laughlin to direct it. H. H. Laughlin became a spokesman for the programmatic side of the previous eugenics movement, lobbying for eugenic legislation to restrict immigration and sterilize "defectives," educating the public on eugenic health, and disseminating eugenic ideas widely
The Eugenics Record Office also maintained there was clear evidence that supposed negative family traits were caused by bad genes, not racism, economics or the social views of the time.
sterilizations were forced and performed on minorities. Thirty-three states would eventually allow involuntary sterilization in whomever lawmakers deemed unworthy to procreate.
In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that forced sterilization of the handicapped does not violate the U.S. Constitution. In the words of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes, three generations of imbeciles are enough. In 1942, the ruling was overturned, but not before thousands of people underwent the procedure.
According to a 1976 Government Accountability Office investigation, between 25 and 50 percent of Native Americans were sterilized between 1970 and 1976. Its thought some sterilizations happened without consent during other surgical procedures such as an appendectomy.
...And Hitler didnt come up with the concept of a superior Aryan race all on his own...he referred to American eugenics in his 1934 book, Mein Kampf.
http://www.uvm.edu/~eugenics/
https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics
http://library.cshl.edu/special-collections/eugenics
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Holy shit. Master race eugenics rhetoric here. This was how the Holocaust was started. Don't ignore. [View all]
kpete
Sep 2020
OP
The bastard is preaching the "good genes" crap while crowding all those poor suckers...
brush
Sep 2020
#7
I would take offence, but I actually know a couple who are first cousins.
Arkansas Granny
Sep 2020
#26
Let him try and claim he was speaking to all Minnesotan's. Of course there is no way he really
brewens
Sep 2020
#20
My Minnesota Norwegian genes are gonna vote his fat white supremacist ass
The Velveteen Ocelot
Sep 2020
#38
He's seems fucked up is it genetics? Probably not . If the trumps are the master race it is made
lunasun
Sep 2020
#49
Remember when he was whining about immigrants from "Shithole countries" and said he wanted
NoRoadUntravelled
Sep 2020
#52
American women with good genes don't stick around long with him in relationships.
Captain Zero
Sep 2020
#76
Let him steal another 4 years, and he'll do eugenics, not just talk genetics.
ancianita
Sep 2020
#70