![]() ![]() It's no secret: although eugenics triumphed in its most despicable and murderous form in Nazi Germany, the Nazis were just carrying on to the next extreme what had been thought and done in the USA during the previous decades. ![]() History is not one faraway thing it is a continuum, an endless repeating cycle. ![]() There’s one final question: did you know from 2006-2010 in California, 148 mentally ill women were sterilized by state mental hospitals without their consent? In my state, in my lifetime, 148 women were violated by the state. ![]() After all, we aren’t in the 1960s.īut those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. All I want to say is this:ĭid you know that from 1930-1960 in America, 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under state-sanctioned programs? That several mental health institutes purposefuly fed their prisoners toberculosis-infected milk upon admission, killing 40% of their patients? That these same eugenics programs served as inspiration for the Holocaust? That they were performed almost entirely on mentally ill women and women of color? These facts may seem painful. ![]()
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