Some of the names in the article surprised me: Jane Addams, Woodrow Wilson. I knew about SC Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Margaret Sanger was also an advocate. Frankly, the abortion of children of Downs Syndrome is pure eugenics.
So we've gone from "It's conservatives who have always been racist -- all the them!" to "White people are always the problem!" Because some white people had noxious ideas.
Let's try the same trick by finding people from other racial groups who did bad things or had noxious ideas. "See! It's a black/ Asian / Latino problem!!"
If it were only some white people, why did it take until 1965 to secure voting rights for Black people and why do most white voters vote for the openly white supremacist party?
Maybe just those who have so vehemently objected to the honest teaching of our American history, aka CRT. As we all know, the first and most important step in solving a problem is recognizing the problem. We have a long and apparently proud history of extreme racism- that's fact, not opinion. And a dread fear of facing it. Fear which of course leads to anger, as fear does.
I don't remember Black liberals being in favor of it. Care to provide proof?
Of course black liberals weren't in favor - often they were the targets. However, see: https://www.aei.org/society-and-culture/liberals-and-eugenics/
Some of the names in the article surprised me: Jane Addams, Woodrow Wilson. I knew about SC Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Margaret Sanger was also an advocate. Frankly, the abortion of children of Downs Syndrome is pure eugenics.
So, it was a white problem, not a liberal problem.
So we've gone from "It's conservatives who have always been racist -- all the them!" to "White people are always the problem!" Because some white people had noxious ideas.
Let's try the same trick by finding people from other racial groups who did bad things or had noxious ideas. "See! It's a black/ Asian / Latino problem!!"
If it were only some white people, why did it take until 1965 to secure voting rights for Black people and why do most white voters vote for the openly white supremacist party?
And yet black men got the vote before white women if I remember the dates of the constitutional amendments correctly.
1965 is before 1920?
You're implying that EVERY SINGLE white person in America was anti-Black until 1965.
Maybe just those who have so vehemently objected to the honest teaching of our American history, aka CRT. As we all know, the first and most important step in solving a problem is recognizing the problem. We have a long and apparently proud history of extreme racism- that's fact, not opinion. And a dread fear of facing it. Fear which of course leads to anger, as fear does.
More like up until today and all of our tomorrows.
It usually comes down to who has the power in the system to actually implement their toxic ideas.