The suffragettes were rabid eugenicists

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 5 fun1 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

I agree - really jarring it is. There were several eugenics journals in the 19th and the early 20th century, and numerous books about eugenics. Social Darwinism developed toward the end of the 19th century, though did not reflect Charles Darwin's personal views, as he was not directly in favor of eugenics (as he had enough trouble fending off criticism that he'd reduced God's humanity to the primitive world of ape descendents). In any event, these ladies were interested in science, which is why they also agreed with eugenics. (Since the 1930s much better reseach has shown that there is no scienticific basis, justification or method for assessing eugenics research.)

[–]YORAMRWWhite nationalist, eugenicist 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

So true!! Charles Darwin, much like Jesus, was also a trans queer lesbian intersectionalist who supported drag queen story hour, wanted to abolish the police and wanted to enrich white majority countries with endless diversity! But most people are ignorant bigots who don't know any of this, because the history books in school (written by the racist white devil) don't teach us any of this! All "science" before the 1930s was just medieval quackery, because it was a bunch of old racist white males who believed in problematic constructs such as "genetics", but thankfully the enlightened Jewish heroes came along to save the day and tell us that eugenics is incorrect and the greatest evil in human history, and rightfully shut down anyone who disagreed with them, so now it's all good and I f*cking love Science!!!

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Isn't it so FUCKING AWESOME that SCIENCE! though it might have made some mistakes in the icky past when everything was all mental and Hitler has now proved everything about my world view true and that SCIENCE! today seems to be making more discoveries that back that up?

[–]YORAMRWWhite nationalist, eugenicist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm reading through this thread together with my wife's Black boyfriend's beautiful Brown sons, and they started applauding and told me that this gives them hope of a brighter, more diverse and equal future, despite the dark times we're going through in the current white supremacist Amerikkka with Drumpf's legacy! Wholesome Reddit moment!! Science says racism bad!

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

No....