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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]
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Plato suggested eugenics around 400 BCE.
The Statesian eugenicist Madison Grant theorized that there was a genocide against whites in the 1910s and inspired Hitler.[3]
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.[4]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Mitchell Jones (2022-05-22). "Communities come together after fascist attack in Buffalo, N.Y. — Biden responds with more cops" Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2023-10-23.
- ↑ Sue Davis (2020-08-19). "Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger problem" Workers World. Retrieved 2023-08-12.