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irisblue

(33,000 posts) Tue Jan 31, 2023, 12:57 AM Jan 2023

BBC radio 4 & podcasts on Eugenics in Europe & the US

Source-https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd39/episodes/player
The programs are under 30 minutes and so far I've heard 6 programs.

I honestly did not know how important Margret Sanger was to Nazi ideology, I'd seen her as a birth control Hera.

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/11/27/margaret-sanger-was-eugenicist-why-are-we-still-celebrating-her

Added, Adam Ruthford & his book Bad Blood is a foundation of the series

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BBC radio 4 & podcasts on Eugenics in Europe & the US (Original Post) irisblue Jan 2023 OP

This is the reason why I continue to wnylib Jan 2023 #1

wnylib

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1. This is the reason why I continue to

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2023, 07:59 AM

Jan 2023

call myself a liberal and prefer not to use the word progressive. I do NOT think that today's Progressives support eugenics. I am not criticizing them. I just personally prefer not to use a term that was once associated with something that I don't support.

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