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Re:A New Biography of Churchill by C1sc0cat on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:53AM (#18192384)
A lot of the "liberal progressives" pre ww2 where in favour of sterilising certain elements of the population until that whole "hitler thing" happened.

In the USA it was the conservative republicans that opposed it.

Re:A New Biography of Churchill by RickJWagner on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:55AM (#18192723)
Eugenics was a strongly held belief of Margaret Sanger, founder of today's Planned Parenthood.

Sanger had other strong negatives in her past, including speaking before KKK affiliated groups.

Real history is sometimes inconvenient, depending on your political point of view.

Re:A New Biography of Churchill by NeedMoreTea on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:37AM (#18192613)
I'm not sure I'd describe the Carnegie Institution, or Rockefeller Foundation, who funded a lot of the eugenics research with the end in mind as notably liberal progressive. Nor could the Republicans Coolidge ("Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races") and Hoover, who were both heavily in favour, be described as progressive liberals. Roosevelt was in favour too, of course.

It was a movement independent of politics, and especially popular in pre-war USA on both sides of the political divide.

Re:A New Biography of Churchill by C1sc0cat on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:29PM (#18194872)
HG Wells and a lot of the left leaning British intellectuals did and Sweden only stopped sterilising in the 1970's
Re:A New Biography of Churchill by nickik on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:02AM (#18192423)
Yes. I recommend "Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era". An eye opening view about the "Progressives" who are so loved and idolized by the modern left or modern progressives.