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.

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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.

  • PeepinGoodArgs
    9·
    10 months ago

    Sure.

    But Planned Parenthood neither is nor prescribes a “stern rigid policy of sterilization and segregation” to anybody. And on that endeavor, it’s clear she failed spectacularly.

    Furthermore, modern Planned Parenthood espouses feminist values, which are in direct opposition to the ideals of eugenics and segregation.

    I don’t think Sanger’s original mission is even remotely applicable to the modern organization. So, I can’t really see how it is currently racist, even if that’s how it started.

    • jimbolauski@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Not really relevant but modern femist values are agnostic to racial segregation.

      Sanger’s style of eugenics is compatible with PP’s modern values, convincing the undesirables the best option for them is not to reproduce. Forced eugenics was not Sanger’s style she was a coerced eugenics kind of gal.

      Up until 3 or 4 years ago Sanger was still beatified inside PP. Her actions and message was downplayed and justified.

      • PeepinGoodArgs
        4·
        10 months ago

        modern femist values are agnostic to racial segregation.

        Maybe modern white feminist values are, like more women in the boardrooms. The rest of it is diametrically opposed to racial segregation.

        • jimbolauski@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          Feminists may be opposed to racial segregation, like most people, but it’s not a value of feminism. Equality of the sexes has nothing to do with race.

          • PizzaMan@lemmy.world
            2·
            10 months ago

            Equality of the sexes has nothing to do with race.

            It absolutely does. Women of color as significantly worse off in a multitude of ways than white women. There is absolutely an effect of race on the treatment of women. So equality of sex is absolutely related to race.

            On top of that, it is strategically better to ally yourself with people who you share common cause, which in this case is equality.