Posted
11/23/2003 04:14:00 PM
by Douglas
Another great piece on
American Eugenics and the implications it had on the rest of the world. I sorta
weighed in on this earlier, but I'm a bit surprised the Mother Jones didn't touch on the involvement of
Margaret Sanger. Here's a longer version of Oliver Wendell Holmes' opinion in
Buck V. Bell:"It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind.... Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
Scary to think this was America, and only 70 years ago.