Francis Galton’s ideas led to several hundred thousand forced sterilizations. Paul Ehrlich’s ideas - with his full support and consent - led to several million forced sterilizations. Our society can’t bring itself to care at all about coercive sterilizations at all when eugenics isn’t involved.

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I mean, there's a reason why they are the group currently getting sterilized.