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A 1930’s poster of the Eugenics Society, courtesy of Wellcome Library (CC BY 4.0)
The Racism of Eugenics
By Brian Clowes, PhD| July 21, 2022 | https://www.hli.org/
e have seen that society. This purely utilitarian difference between eugenics
eugenicists in thinking has culminated in the practice a century ago and in
Wgeneral focus attempted extermination of our current day is that now,
entirely on a person’s physical entire classes of people — the those who are deemed non-
characteristics when gauging handicapped, the elderly, other productive or “unwanted” are
their perceived usefulness to ethnicities, and Jews. The only killed individually instead of en
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