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People used to do this during the original "Progressive era" im American history. The people who ended up targeted were poor and black. https://en.m.wikipedia.o
by thehardsphere 10y ago
People used to do this during the original "Progressive era" im American history. The people who ended up targeted were poor and black. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization
- flocial 10y agoIf you look at current incarceration statistics I'd say it's still happening.
- thehardsphere 10y agoI don't know if it's the same, because I don't know if that's happening with the same sort of pre-meditated malice. Like, I don't think the people behind the incarceration soad "Let's jail all the poor black people" up front, whereas that was the explicit goal of some of these Progressive-era sterilization programs. Then again, the intentions ultimately don't matter if you're on the receiving end of it.