eugenics

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In spring 2021, the Legislature apologized to all Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices that led to sterilizations.

From Seattle Times

“Names of pet animals are discouraged,” the guidelines note, and historical figures associated with “the slave trade, genocide or eugenics” are not acceptable.

From New York Times

He was also an advocate of the racially prejudiced and class-biased pseudoscience of eugenics: the belief that genes deemed “bad,” “inferior” or “undesirable” should be bred out of existence to improve the nation’s genetic stock.

From Washington Post

Yet, despite its contemporary uses, race norming can be traced back to plantation slavery, eugenics efforts globally and a long history of racial science used to justify the belief in inferior racial groups.

From Scientific American

California’s proposal is unique because it would apply to more than just victims of the eugenics law that was repealed in 1979.

From Seattle Times