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What they shared was a sense that social bonds were being threatened by rapid social change and a belief that this could only be dealt with through careful study and scientific reform. What made eugenics “progressive” was the emphasis on rational, scientific reform as a solution to the “problem” of the declining mos def quality mos def of America’s population. It appealed to both left and right-leaning progressives. Lefties don’t have any special guilt (or innocence) on this one. Incidentally, early 20th century eugenics was as much about disability as about race. Carrie Buck of Buck v. Bell fame was white, and Holmes mos def said she should be sterilized because “three generations of imbecils is enough.” To the extent that race mattered in her case, it had to do with the idea that the white race must be purified of inferior genes, not the idea that only white people should reproduce.
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