(07-29-2025, 02:33 AM)Alpacx wrote: Tommy Douglas, the father of medicare in Canada and near the top of almost any "greatest Canadian" list was a eugenicist...John Dewey, Jane Addams, G. Stanley Hall, every politician of the era, et al, you pretty much cannot name a single Progressive Era reformer who wasn't one. It was pretty much like the trans science that all the Right Side of History believed and endorsed. They were almost all also anti-immigration too, the wrong stock was immigrating and would corrupt the perfect society they were building. The reason for the creation of the minimum wage was "eugenicist" to keep the undesired out of the labor pool so they'd die off after being sterilized for being unemployed.
It's like when they talk about how Nazis love dogwhistles and secret messages hiding everything. No, this stuff was right out in the open and people were proud to boast of their support for it. You can find popular tomes, newspapers, etc. advocating all this shit. The Right Side of History were the ones advocating socialism, fascism, eugenics, etc. The planned society was supposed to be the proper future, not capitalism which was supposed to be in its "late stage" and dying out, not liberalism which was corrupting morally and standing in the way of progress.
edit: The way Nepenthe and most of that forum talks about race is straight out of the "race scientists" of the late 19th Century/Progressive Era that was used as the support for racist eugenics. Yet for some reason we're supposed to ignore that and focus on the fact that Sydney Sweeney has blue eyes and so said "blue eyes" because they're fucking simpletons. (That the Right Side of History would have wanted sterilized, but most of them do that voluntarily now.)
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