Eugenics victim, son fighting together for justice

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14 Aug 2011, 7:20 am

Not exactly a 'current' event but highly educational I think it a historical frame of reference. Apparently this was common practice in North Carolina between 1929 and 1974:

http://www.heraldnews.com/opinions/focu ... or-justice


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14 Aug 2011, 7:23 am

My mother was born in 1923 in a small town in the Blue Ridge mountains. She said she can remember busloads of people being brought down for sterilization.


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14 Aug 2011, 10:43 pm

yes, what another wonderful example of centralized authority and the pride and stupidity it endows people with.

i've read this crap was going on until the 80's even.


this is what happens when no one with power stands up and says "THAT'S WRONG!".



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15 Aug 2011, 1:42 am

Hitler in fact credited America for inspiring his own eugenics program.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer