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Steven Hawking Dies- RIP (1 Viewer)

fantasycurse42 said:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/16/stephen-hawking-feared-a-rich-superhuman-species-will-end-humanity.html

Interesting to read some of his final thoughts. I personally think it'll be AI/technology/robots/terminator that undoes us, but this isn't a bad angle either. 
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And anyone who watched this wk's episode of PBS's American Experience on this country's early 20th C Eugenics movement - which was flourishing mightily until the horrors of Naziism (Hitler cited American racial-purity theories in Mein Kampf) shamed it out of existence -  know how pervasive the impulse to pursue a superrace can become.. They showed how easy it could be, a century ago, for a person to be suckered in by the notion that, the whiter (Nordic=perfect, so to speak) people got, the more healthy and prosperous they became, but i had no idea that it had gone to the extent of sterilizing 60,000 Americans for mental/moral unfitness. The sterilization movement was in fact expanding - so much so that the Supreme Court decision which legalized "sterilizing the unfit" was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Margaret Sanger attached herself to the movement to advance her cause of reproductive rights -  when WWII began.

 
wikkidpissah said:
And anyone who watched this wk's episode of PBS's American Experience on this country's early 20th C Eugenics movement - which was flourishing mightily until the horrors of Naziism (Hitler cited American racial-purity theories in Mein Kampf) shamed it out of existence -  know how pervasive the impulse to pursue a superrace can become.. They showed how easy it could be, a century ago, for a person to be suckered in by the notion that, the whiter (Nordic=perfect, so to speak) people got, the more healthy and prosperous they became, but i had no idea that it had gone to the extent of sterilizing 60,000 Americans for mental/moral unfitness. The sterilization movement was in fact expanding - so much so that the Supreme Court decision which legalized "sterilizing the unfit" was written by Oliver Wendell Holmes and Margaret Sanger attached herself to the movement to advance her cause of reproductive rights -  when WWII began.
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Yeah. It was Buck v. Bell, and the eugenics movement had a huge role in our municipal court systems, which are often the decision-makers between freedom and incapacitation. Read City of Courts by Michael Willrich to get an idea of how the eugenics movement influenced law. It's scary.  And Sanger, IIRC, was long before WWII. She was at the forefront of the eugenics movement in the twenties and thirties, too. 

But your point is well-taken. The eugenics movement in America was large and widespread, and scary, too. 

 
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