Eugenics: a toxic history
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In the early twentieth century, eugenics was used to encourage working class white americans to embrace it as an idea. It's connected again with first wave feminism, because he was closely associated with margaret sanger. So how did these ideas take hold in nasy germany? Were the nay weaponizing ideas that already existed? Or were they building on them and introducing new things to the eugenics thinking?
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