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Eugenics, Margaret Ann Donnell
Eugenics, Margaret Ann Donnell
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Naturally, and quite understandably, people avoid discussing the dark periods of human history, specifically the inconceivable acts of dehumanization imposed on their fellow man.
Individuals struggle to understand, sometimes simply because they cannot fathom, how a person—and in some cases, an institution—can manipulate and devalue another human being or groups of people. Often, the standards by which those with the “authority” to determine the lack of worth of the individual or population are arbitrary and subjective.
All of this is relevant in a conversation over the eugenics movement of the United States, occurring in the early to mid-twentieth century.
When …