Heroes of fiscal discipline in North Carolina have made an astonishing discovery: paying compensation to the victims of a horrible crime does not actually make that crime un-happen in the past! Because of this ironclad law of physics, Republicans in the North Carolina Senate
You, just like many people / publications today, inaccurately describe the eugenics programs in a way to quickly summarize a shocking, horrible, and difficult to understand phenomenon. This is a mistake. Regardless of how horrible something may seem to us now, in 2016, it is an ignorant mistake to pretend like everything done in history was done with the knowledge and understanding that we have today. As far as eugenics, the reality is that the program started because of #science. That's right, eugenics only became popular to begin with because science accepted the idea that genetics was the main reason for promiscuity, criminal behavior, destitution, feeble-mindedness, and many of society's other ills. This is hard for us to understand because we know it isn't true and, even if it was, it wouldn't justify something like compulsory eugenics. But it's so hard to understand because times have changed so much. Science has changed. Society has changed. Our social-structure has changed.
Margaret Sanger, the mother of Planned Parenthood, was a champion and firm-believer of eugenics. Just as she was for birth control rights. She wasn't crazy, but she held certain beliefs because of her understanding -- in the early 1900s -- of what science, i.e. natural law, dictated.
I don't say this to justify eugenics. It's obviously a horrible ill and an embarrassing point in our history, but to pretend like it's an easy thing to summarize just so we can show our holiness when we condemn it -- that is a mistake that is often made when judging the past.
"The Constitution says nothing about fallopian tubes." -Antonin Scalia
If time travel were possible, somebody would have come from the future by now, and done something about the teabaggers and rightwing nutbags.
Thanks ... I could not find either item. You keeping a list or something?
The important thing about Riddick's story is that a 13-year-old girl was forced to give birth to her rape-baby, just as Jeebus intended.
Being an Amercian, on the other hand, is not all it's cracked up to be.
wombs in service to <strike>the state</strike> Jeebus.
fify
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&quot;We&#039;re sorry if anybody was offended by our sterilzing them, and we regret our poor choice of eugenics methods.&quot;
But would you be able to prevent &quot;Free Bird?&quot;
Well, there was that whole &quot;this is my body&quot; business, which got <i>totally</i> re-written the next morning.
i guess it isn&#039;t a great day in NORTH Carolina
You, just like many people / publications today, inaccurately describe the eugenics programs in a way to quickly summarize a shocking, horrible, and difficult to understand phenomenon. This is a mistake. Regardless of how horrible something may seem to us now, in 2016, it is an ignorant mistake to pretend like everything done in history was done with the knowledge and understanding that we have today. As far as eugenics, the reality is that the program started because of #science. That's right, eugenics only became popular to begin with because science accepted the idea that genetics was the main reason for promiscuity, criminal behavior, destitution, feeble-mindedness, and many of society's other ills. This is hard for us to understand because we know it isn't true and, even if it was, it wouldn't justify something like compulsory eugenics. But it's so hard to understand because times have changed so much. Science has changed. Society has changed. Our social-structure has changed.
Margaret Sanger, the mother of Planned Parenthood, was a champion and firm-believer of eugenics. Just as she was for birth control rights. She wasn't crazy, but she held certain beliefs because of her understanding -- in the early 1900s -- of what science, i.e. natural law, dictated.
I don't say this to justify eugenics. It's obviously a horrible ill and an embarrassing point in our history, but to pretend like it's an easy thing to summarize just so we can show our holiness when we condemn it -- that is a mistake that is often made when judging the past.
And tiny American flags for all.
NC to victims: we&#039;re sorry (NOT).
The state will send Hallmark sympathy cards instead of checks.
Yes and no. But mostly no.
I suppose we can expect the next move by this enlightened Senate will be to use the 10 million to restart the eugenics program.