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'''Eugenics''' is a pseudoscientific and often [[Racism|racist]] movement that seeks to limit the birth rate of certain groups | '''Eugenics''' is a pseudoscientific and often [[Racism|racist]] movement that seeks to limit the birth rate of certain groups based on [[disability]], [[Intelligence quotient|IQ]], or other factors.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Donna Goodman|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality|date=2022-03-08|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/womens-movement-1910-1940/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230322061221/https://www.liberationschool.org/womens-movement-1910-1940/|archive-date=2023-03-22}}</ref> Eugenics was widespread in the [[United States of America|United States]] from the 1920s to 1970s and helped inspire [[National Socialism|Nazism]].<ref>{{Web citation|author=Jacob Levich|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=The real agenda of the Gates Foundation|date=2014-11-02|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/real-agenda-gates-foundation/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708034443/https://www.liberationschool.org/real-agenda-gates-foundation/|archive-date=2023-07-08}}</ref> | ||
== History == | |||
[[Plato]] suggested eugenics around 400 BCE. | |||
In 1927, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled 8 to 1 in favor of forced sterilization in ''Buck v. Bell''. By the 1970s, southern states had sterilized about 70,000 people, mostly Black women, and 30% of the [[Commonwealth of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] population was sterilized. Forced sterilization continues in [[Prison|prisons]] in [[State of California|California]] to this day.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Sue Davis|newspaper=[[Workers World]]|title=Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger problem|date=2020-08-19|url=https://www.workers.org/2020/08/50683/|retrieved=2023-08-12}}</ref> | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Ableism]] | |||
* [[Malthusianism]] | * [[Malthusianism]] | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
[[Category:Pseudoscience]] | [[Category:Pseudoscience]] | ||
Revision as of 19:08, 12 August 2023
Eugenics is a pseudoscientific and often racist movement that seeks to limit the birth rate of certain groups based on disability, IQ, or other factors.[1] Eugenics was widespread in the United States from the 1920s to 1970s and helped inspire Nazism.[2]
History
Plato suggested eugenics around 400 BCE.
In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in favor of forced sterilization in Buck v. Bell. By the 1970s, southern states had sterilized about 70,000 people, mostly Black women, and 30% of the Puerto Rican population was sterilized. Forced sterilization continues in prisons in California to this day.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Donna Goodman (2022-03-08). "Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2023-03-22.
- ↑ Jacob Levich (2014-11-02). "The real agenda of the Gates Foundation" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2023-07-08.
- ↑ Sue Davis (2020-08-19). "Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger problem" Workers World. Retrieved 2023-08-12.