The Young Conservatives Trying to Make Eugenics Respectable Again
www.theatlantic.com
The pseudoscience of race provides both a justification of hierarchies and an enemy to rail against.

Unpaywalled Version: https://archive.ph/n9NWZ

With increasing dogmatism on the far right, ideology that should have become extinct rears its ugly head. If we don’t stop this, a lot of innocent people will get hurt in the end.

  • jimbolauski@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    PP denied and justified Sanger’s ideas up until 3 years ago before that she was just allaying with the eugenics movement to further her goals.

    Convincing undesirables that they shouldn’t have children sure seems to align with PP’s values. It seems PP just broadened their views to the “poors” and not just raced based.

      • jimbolauski@lemmy.world
        12·
        1 year ago

        PP finally removed Sanger’s name from Manhattan Health Center in 2020.

        https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/margaret-sanger-planned-parenthood-trnd/index.html

        “The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” said Karen Seltzer, the chair of PPGNY’s board. “Margaret Sanger’s concerns and advocacy for reproductive health have been clearly documented, but so too has her racist legacy.”