The Importance of Eugenics

Eugenics, as implemented in the early part of the 20th century, was extraordinarily evil. They sterilized 2,000 people for a form of blindness that wasn't even genetic. Although eugenics eventually became labeled racist, this took a while and before it happened, the political coalitions were not what you'd expect. The anti-racist positions of the 1920s centered around fear that only white people would get to do eugenics to themselves.