Eugenics is a pseudoscience. It is based on cleansing the
population of those seen as undesirables, while strengthening the human race.
Today I am going to go over why this fake science should never be
followed.
What is Eugenics: Eugenics came out of the
progressive socialist movements of the late 19th and early 20th century.
It was based on the Marxist ideals that spawned progressivism were some
races and peoples were genetically superior and thus meant to rule over them.
But in the 1930s, this pseudoscience in the United States would be taken
to its most logical "peaceful" solution. In the historical
background of the book "Unbroken" it gives a nice little list of
those who were targeted by this evil fake science. Those the fake science
sought to cleanse were: The feebleminded, insane, criminals, women who had sex
out of wedlock (considered a mental illness at the time), orphans, the
disabled, the poor, the homeless, epileptics, masturbators, the blind, the
deaf, alcoholics, and girls whose genitals exceeded certain measurements.
As to how they would cleanse these groups, the methods varied, but
euthanasia was encouraged, and in mental hospitals euthanasia was carried out
on patients, or they were killed through lethal neglect or even outright
murder. Some patients at an Illinois hospital were dosed with milk from
cows infected by tuberculosis, with the belief that the undesirables would
perish (4 in 10 of these patients would die) (Unbroken page 11). Forced
sterilization was also popular by State governments with some 20,000 being
sterilized by the State of California alone.
Conclusion: As you can see, eugenics is a bad
science that seeks to kill or remove thousands from the gene pool to gain a
superior human race. Thankfully, this fake "science" has become
seen as backwards, but its legacy is still here.
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