07-26-2017, 08:11 PM
(07-26-2017, 08:07 PM)Dill Wrote: These two were no friends of scientific racism; both spent their lives working to empower individuals.
I think Lucie is railing against the more coercive eugencists, who wanted to the state to control reproduction. It would be wrong to identify wither DuBois or Sanger with this, wouldn't it?
I would agree. While both were in favor of eugenics and proponents of it, they weren't as exploitive of its potential as some others.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
