313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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Eugenics in the 1920s and 30s
pre-world war two eugenics well say in the 1910s and 20s was largely a liberal cause absolutely yeah we're gonna re-engineer society not only socially politically and economically but genetically. It wasn't only it got turned into its vialist form in in the holocaust where it was primarily exterminating people rather than allowing certain particular individuals to breed, even though lower classes were inherently quite obviously inferior. In the UK one of our most famous advocates of uh female contour of use of contraception was also she wanted to apply it because she wanted to the lower classes to stop breeding by 30s she was writing letters to nazis.
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