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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by anon9001 on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:08PM (#24523819)
To be fair, there was only one doctor forcibly sterilizing women, and it appeared to be for personal profit rather than some eugenics directive from above. It's bad, but it's quite as bad as you're making it out to be.
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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by js2 on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:12PM (#24523839)
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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died by anon9001 on Friday September 18, 2020 @09:23PM (#24523929)
If we're going to compare it to WW2 where they were doing experiments on humans and running eugenics projects, I think we should acknowledge that this is fundamentally different than that. Someone who didn't read the intercept story [1] might take the WW2 comparison too literally and think we've begun official mass sterilization programs. We haven't. What happened is tragic and awful, but it's not the same thing that Hitler did.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2020/09/17/forced-sterilization-ice...

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