Sentences with phrase «eugenicists promoted»
From around the 1910s through the end of World War II, eugenicists promoted not only involuntary sterilization of the so - called «unfit,» but also infanticide of disabled babies (which was not carried out beyond Germany).
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That a lot of secular progressives are fierce supporters of the abortion license because they're eugenicists at heart shouldn't come as a surprise; one current member of the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a Gruberian moment some years ago when she admitted in an interview that legal activists promoting the abortion license prior to 1973 did so in part because they thought it would cut down the «growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.»
Standardized tests first entered the public schools in the 1920s, pushed by eugenicists whose pseudoscience promoted the «natural superiority» of wealthy, white, U.S. - born males.