Episode 400: Talking Headways Back in Time
Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast
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The Legacy of Eugenics
The social sciences of statistics and averages became not just a way to measure one another but also a way to grade and rank and hierarchize one another in the 19th century. The conflation of normalcy with what is good was at its peak in the eugenics moment of the early 20th century. Ian says we want our lives actually to have dignity on other grounds you know full stop so normalcy is this kind of in the water perniciousness.
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