![]() And with that, you would maintain high-quality children and different stratification within society. "It starts really with Plato talking about how high-quality men should be matched with high-quality women at marriage festivals. Eugenic thinking happened throughout human history ![]() Here are some points made by Adam Rutherford while in conversation with IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed. And with advances in DNA technology, we are faced with moral dilemmas around the genetic manipulation of humans. Rutherford, who is also a BBC science podcaster, and the author of Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics, calls eugenic thinking a "dominant idea" of the 20th century that has become "toxic," but not gone away.įorced sterilizations of the poor and racialized continue to occur worldwide. ![]() ![]() states and Canadian provinces allowed for the legal sterilization of people deemed "unfit" by authorities - particularly in the broad category of the "feebleminded." Ideas 53:59 Eugenic thinking has never gone awayĮugenics is most commonly associated today with the Third Reich's World War II atrocities, committed in the name of "racial hygiene."īut as geneticist Adam Rutherford points out the view that "undesirable traits" could be bred out of the human race had wide appeal in the late 19th and early 20th century in Britain and North America.Ĭertain U.S. ![]()
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