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In reply to the discussion: Nikola Tesla the Eugenicist [View all]

mojowork_n

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4. From the Wiki "Eugenics" page entry.....
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 04:14 PM
Dec 2012

It's not as if ideas we now group under "population control" and "genetic engineering" don't include some of those same concepts.

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left: 1em; border: 2px solid #6600cc; border-radius: 0.4615em; box-shadow: 6px 6px 6px #999999;"]At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill,[41] Margaret Sanger,[42][43] Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling[44] and Sidney Webb.[45][46][47] Many members of the American Progressive Movement supported eugenics, enticed by its scientific trappings and its promise to cure social ills....

All of those prominent supporters (including Tesla) went on the record *before* 'not allowing people with those conditions to reproduce' got turned in to 'not allowing those people to draw another breath,' ...following the Wannsee Conference, the Final Solution.

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