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Interesting programme on Eugenics / Radio 4

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Sarah74 Mon 21-Nov-22 17:40:04
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Driving home just now, I caught the tail end of this first episode of a 6 part Radio 4 series on Eugenics. I will listen to it properly later, but interested (!) to hear that Winston Churchill was quite a proponent of this idea.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fd39

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welbeck Mon 21-Nov-22 17:54:25

a lot of the big-wigs were from about 1890-1930, and beyond in germany of course.
they saw it as sensible, rational, like planned parenthood but on a national sale.

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welbeck Mon 21-Nov-22 17:54:56

scale

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watermeadow Mon 21-Nov-22 19:19:12

Marie Stopes started her birth control clinics, not to help women, but to lower birth rates among the lower classes, who undesirables. She wouldn’t let her son marry a girl who was not perfect as she wore glasses.

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welbeck Mon 21-Nov-22 19:56:31

well, that girl dodged a bullet, as they'd say over on MN.

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