eugenics

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In spring 2021, the Legislature apologized to all Vermonters and their families and descendants who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies and practices that led to sterilizations.

From Seattle Times

“Names of pet animals are discouraged,” the guidelines note, and historical figures associated with “the slave trade, genocide or eugenics” are not acceptable.

From New York Times

Her chapter on personal time management, for example, moves from the Protestant work ethic to what she calls “productivity bros” to the standardized A-F grading system to eugenics and scientific racism.

From Washington Post

And the California Institute of Technology said it would rename buildings and locations that honored followers of the eugenics movement, a form of pseudoscientific racism.

From Washington Post

It wasn’t until the early 1990s that the society formally opposed eugenics theories.

From Science Magazine