5/29/2023 0 Comments Khan academy cons![]() ![]() Ethnic minorities, immigrants, convicted felons, the mentally handicapped, and the poor were the main targets of this procedure since their "weaknesses" were evidence of biologically undesirable traits that should be bred out of the human race.įrom what I understand people were coerced into sterilization through a variety of social incentives and threats. The congressmen believed that doing so was a service to the advancement of society.Ĭhoosing who would be sterilized was an extremely discriminatory and subjective process. Many congressmen held to the above mentioned ideals and therefore had no ethical qualms about passing this hurtful legislature. Since poverty, mental illness, and different racial and ethnic backgrounds were considered biologically undesirable traits, the process of sterilization was used as an unethical means to "cleanse" humanity of biological weaknesses. ![]() The purpose of eugenics was to eliminate "undesirable" attributes from the human race. ![]() In practice this meant that if someone was not a white, middle-class protestant they were biologically inferior and needed to be rooted out via "survival of the fittest" (misconstrued) ideology. Unfortunately those who held to these views confused the difference between beautifully unique and equal cultures with a biological deficit. ![]() White Supremacists adhered to "Social Darwinism"- a construed way of thinking that espouses the idea that certain races and classes are more evolved than others. The idea of sterilization was based in part on a misunderstanding of Darwinism and natural selection. ![]()
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