Birth control and racism
Despite extensive whitewashing by contemporary leftists, birth control and racism are heavily linked both in history and the present. In the United States, eugenics, a brainchild of the Progressive Movement, led to a state-enforced implementation of Social Darwinism which became manifested in crimes against humanity justified by leftists as "human betterment." Birth control became a tool for white supremacy viewed as means to persecute nonwhites, and was promoted alongside rampant immigration restriction out of racist fearmongering.
According to a publication by the National Library of Medicine:[1]
| “ | Simplistic eugenic thinking has faded, but coerced sterilization remains widespread, especially in China and India. In many parts of the world, involuntary sterilization is still intermittently used against minority groups. | ” |
—Philip R. Reilly, NCBI | ||
U.S. Progressives
Eugenics in Oregon, 1920s-40s
According to Robert R. McCoy in the Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 110, the middle class during the Progressive Era formed a movement summarized by historians as "radical democratic populism."[2] Also deemed "reactionary populism," it was used to describe the tendency for Progressive activists to advocate democratic reforms while simultaneously discriminating against racial and ethnic minorities.
References
- ↑ Reilly, Philip R. (2015). Eugenics and Involuntary Sterilization: 1907-2015. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved December 12, 2022.
- ↑ McCoy, Robert R. (2009). The Paradox of Oregon's Progressive Politics: The Political Career of Walter Marcus Pierce, p. 392. JSTOR. Retrieved December 12, 2022.