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June 30, 2014
Philanthropy's Original Sin
It inspired and cultivated programs around the world, but nowhere with more consequence than in the nation that sought most fervently to imitate America’s eugenic example, Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich. How did American philanthropy become involved with so reactionary and misanthropic a venture as eugenics? As recent scholarship on eugenics has shown, the movement was not considered reactionary at the time. To the contrary, eugenics was very much an essential feature of the American progressive movement at the beginning of the twentieth century.- The New Atlantis
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 30, 2014 10:21 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Eugenics can be a good thing if managed correctly.
My uncle Letsgo Lozko raised bantam chickens. He used Eugenics on his flock. He didn't know that was what he was doing, but he sure had healthy chickens.
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at July 1, 2014 8:10 AM