Continued Marginalization of Eugenics
One of Northern California's top newspapers, the Sacramento Bee, published this article, about how a local school is being renamed by the school board, due to Charles Goathe's support of the eugenics movement of the era. The writer labels eugenics a "pseudo-science", misrepresenting it and Goethe. Given, the movement at the time was primarily based on racism and pseudoscience, due to there being a lot of racism and pseudoscience at the time, and little understanding of genetics, this still appears to me to be an attempt to bury history based on the school board's own views.
The writer fails to mention that Goethe was a conservationist who also founded CSU Sacramento, and left his estate to the school.
What's worse, Rosa Parks was chosen over other candidates who were actually active in or were from California. Which makes no sense, considering Rosa Parks, though a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, has a grandiose amount of recognition considering the actual effort she made, and the other candidates definitely deserve more.
If people weren't so ignorant, or could at least get past the negative connotation eugenics has due to the past, we might as a species do such things as resolve genetic diseases and make ourselves more fit in objectifiable ways...
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The writer fails to mention that Goethe was a conservationist who also founded CSU Sacramento, and left his estate to the school.
What's worse, Rosa Parks was chosen over other candidates who were actually active in or were from California. Which makes no sense, considering Rosa Parks, though a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, has a grandiose amount of recognition considering the actual effort she made, and the other candidates definitely deserve more.
If people weren't so ignorant, or could at least get past the negative connotation eugenics has due to the past, we might as a species do such things as resolve genetic diseases and make ourselves more fit in objectifiable ways...
X-posted to transhumanist