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Originally Posted by amish J
New ideas, no but they are ideas that have continued to be looked upon as "immoral" or "unjust".  |
We had a eugenics program in this country for the first half of the 20th century. Its proponents argued that certain lower levels of people pollute the genes of superior people. These groups included new immigrants (at that time eastern and southern Europeans), Jews, Native Americans, and blacks. One group, the Immigration Restriction League, lobbied for literacy tests to weed out "inferior races." Disgustingly, feminists like Margaret Sanger were also in favor, although she believed that the women themselves should have access to contraception and that the government should not be choosing who and who isn't allowed to breed. Tens of thousands of people were forcibly sterilized to protect "white racial health."
In theory, these folks wanted to eliminate the breeding of "feeble-minded" and "deformed" people. However, in practice they targeted people of color and immigrants. It wasn't until after WWII and the horrors of the holocaust were known that Americans started rejecting eugenics. It's a very ugly chapter in our history, and there's nothing moral about it.
Eugenics in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia