American eugenics movement

[winnie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/us/re ... fb-nytimes

32 states in the US had eugenics programmes... interesting reading

[tuttiflutes]

and we thought eugenics programs were abolished after the second world war... NOT! =(

good read win.. Now,I miss you so come back home!

xXx
tutti

[Uncle Ron]

Thanks for this Winnie, extremely thought provoking.

From the article...
"The board operated from 1933 to 1977 as an experiment in genetic engineering once considered a legitimate way to keep welfare rolls small, stop poverty and improve the gene pool."

... lead me to the following...
"When Nazi administrators went on trial for war crimes in Nuremberg after World War II, they justified the mass sterilizations (over 450,000 in less than a decade) by citing the United States as their inspiration.[75] The Nazis had claimed American eugenicists inspired and supported Hitler's racial purification laws, and failed to understand the connection between those policies and the eventual genocide of the Holocaust."

REF [75]
"The connections between U.S. and Nazi eugenicists is discussed in Edwin Black, "Eugenics and the Nazis – the California connection", San Francisco Chronicle (9 November 2003), as well as Black's War Against the Weak (New York: Four Wars Eight Windows, 2003). Stefan Kühl's work, The Nazi connection: Eugenics, American racism, and German National Socialism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), is considered the standard scholarly work on the subject."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#c ... -sfgate-74

Thought provoking indeed...

[geoffk]

Rather unsettling to say the least.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Eugenics---Hmmm--we all know where that leads