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. The Progressive Movement was strong in Oregon, where agrarian contempt for Yankee capitalism was strong and long fueled left-wing populist causes like free coinage of silver;[3] such economic appeals were mixed with overt anti-Asian sentiment, which was prominent in the West.
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.
- ↑ "The Paradox of Oregon's Progressive Politics," p. 395.