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I'm currently reading about this now on Wikipedia, and holy crap this a chunk of US history that I've not looked before. It seems that the eugenic movement was

I'm currently reading about this now on Wikipedia, and holy crap this a chunk of US history that I've not looked before. It seems that the eugenic movement was fully developed in California, way before the Nazis imported it from them and used it to their advantage... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

Braggadocious 7y ago
California sterilized more Americans under the eugenics movement than any other state. Virginia is second. This was not a small movement. I suggest reading the book "Imbeciles" by Adam Cohen. Most historical societies downplay a lot of what happened, so you can find things on wikipedia but to get a full picture, books are better. I'm right now looking to find what exactly the eugenics curriculum was at UC Berkeley and Stanford since it was an entire area of study at many universities at the time.