The History of Eugenics
 

I thought this was quite interesting. I don't necessarily agree with all of what these people say but I thought their viewpoints were interesting. This is the first part of 13 parts (the rest is on youtube) but I have never before considered birth control and abortion from a racist aspect. I would like to hear thoughts and opinions on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrFu...hannel&list=UL

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Oh, and one of the videos shows a very offensive "advertisement" that was made for teens. They give fair warning before showing it though. It was really offensive. :(

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I watched this about 2 years ago. It is interesting.

Eugenics is something that has been advocated by many people in power, although you will never hear them say so.

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Yeah, it never occurred to me that they would put abortion clinics in minority areas to get rid of black people but the way they said it in the videos, it made a certain amount of sense. That said, I don't think the people who work at planned parenthood are all racists though.

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From some of the websites about this subject that I looked at, they report that most of the people in PP are compartmentalized. They just do the job they were hired for and know nothing about eugenics. Most of them have the same beliefs....like women should have a choice about what to do with their bodies. Lots of propaganda is involved when counseling a woman who is quite vulnerable in early pregnancy.

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I lasted about 2 1/2 minutes. Not tonight ..:)

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Is this a subject you have heard about or know about? What are your thoughts on it if you have heard of it? I am curious since you are part of the black community.

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Yeah, I think they are just "doing their job".

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I've heard a bit of this in the past. I was just saying that it has been a long and tiring day and I did not want to end it on the slavery note :). I think, for obvious reasons, that is a subject that is particularly troubling for me.

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Sure, I can see why. I hope you will comment when you are rested up. :)

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"The Fernald School, and others like it, was part of a popular American movement in the early 20th century called the Eugenics movement. The idea was to separate people considered to be genetically inferior from the rest of society, to prevent them from reproducing.

Eugenics is usually associated with Nazi Germany, but in fact, it started in America. Not only that, it continued here long after Hitler's Germany was in ruins."
www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-614728.html

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Yeah and the video that I posted the first part of on here....claims that planned parenthood is a (more or less) natural progression of the eugenics movement, first, in trying to keep poor, uneducated and mostly minority people from reproducing and when that didn't work well enough, abortion was legalized and clinics were placed in mostly low income, minority areas. I had never heard anything like this before I watched the video, but I see there is quite a bit of information out there on it. I had heard Margaret Sanger (founder of planned parenthood) was a racist but I never saw or read much on it.

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The Eugenics Wars must never be allowed to happen again!

http://www.google.com/url?source=img...d9Nk5Lgv8ip9Dg

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The eugenics movement is alive and well today all over the world. It is just disguised using one form or another.

Euthanasia will be coming on the legal scene fairly soon.

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This obviously means something to you.....but not to me. ;)

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Now that you posted it, I remember seeing that thread. However, this video really spelled out some things about eugenics. For example, I wouldn't have placed being an African-american being in the womb as being dangerous because of eugenics (a plan to get rids of black people and minorities), I would have simply thought of it as dangerous because it was statistically so. This video talks about eugenics specifically. Have you watched this video?