eugenics

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,470

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 2, 2023

This is the grave of Raymond Pearl. Born in 1879 in Farmington, New Hampshire, Pearl grew up pretty wealthy and had a very good education. Although his parents wanted him to go into a humanities-based subject (imagine that today....), Pearl was more interested in science...

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Images from American History, Part 93

By Erik Loomis

On July 27, 2023

A page from Mental Defectives in Virginia, 1915

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Images from American History, Part 31

By Erik Loomis

On February 17, 2023

Better Baby Contest, Indiana State Fair, 1930 For a touch of context, this was about promoting eugenics and these were tremendously popular through the nation from the 1910s through the.

Criminalizing Immigration: An American History

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 24, 2018

Great ProPublica piece on the very fine racists of the past who created the law criminalizing unlawful entry by immigrants that Trump and his thugs are weaponizing today. Two men spearheaded the effort that would lead Congress to criminalize unlawful entry into the United States....

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Margaret Sanger, Eugenics, and Abortion

By Erik Loomis

On August 20, 2015

Imani Gandy has a very useful run down of Margaret Sanger's complicated racial, sexual, and medical politics, politics that the right are simplifying and lying about in order to attack.

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Eugenics Will Never Die

By Erik Loomis

On February 14, 2014

Better keep the underclass from reproducing. Will destroy the race or something. A prison doctor investigated by the California medical board after ordering tubal ligations without state approval is responsible.

The White Race Cannot Survive Without Dairy Products

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 27, 2012

I occasionally get the question of what the above phrase means. It was my tagline when I wrote at my own blog and it is on the rotating lines at the top of this blog. It is a quote from Herbert Hoover, a strong believer...