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[[Image:Gtr766.png|right|thumb|300px|Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921.]]
[[File:Gtr766.png|right|thumb|300px|Logo of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921.]]
[[File:Allen William Thurman.jpg|thumb|right|230px|[[Ohio]] Democrat and eugenicist [[Allen W. Thurman]],<ref>September 26, 1912. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/09/26/100549905.pdf Predicting Ohio's Bankruptcy]. ''The New York Times''. Retrieved October 8, 2021.</ref> the son of segregationist and [[white supremacist]] U.S. senator [[Allen G. Thurman]].]]
'''Eugenics''' was a [[progressive]] movement which tried to eliminate "dangerous human pests" and "the rising tide of imbeciles" through what has been euphemistically called "[[selective breeding]]." What this meant, in actual practice, was [[forced sterilization]] of American immigrants and minorities (particularly in California),<ref>Crichton, Michael (2004). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070315005147/http://www.michaelcrichton.net/fear/index.html "Why politicized science is dangerous"]. Excerpt from ''State of Fear'' (New York: Harper). Retrieved from March 15, 2007 archive of MichaelCrichton.com at Internet Archive on September 17, 2014.</ref> and then the promotion of abortion by [[liberal]] whites in black and Hispanic communities.
'''Eugenics''' was a [[progressive]] movement which tried to eliminate "dangerous human pests" and "the rising tide of imbeciles" through what has been euphemistically called "[[selective breeding]]." What this meant, in actual practice, was [[forced sterilization]] of American immigrants and minorities (particularly in California),<ref>Crichton, Michael (2004). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070315005147/http://www.michaelcrichton.net/fear/index.html "Why politicized science is dangerous"]. Excerpt from ''State of Fear'' (New York: Harper). Retrieved from March 15, 2007 archive of MichaelCrichton.com at Internet Archive on September 17, 2014.</ref> and then the promotion of abortion by [[liberal]] whites in black and Hispanic communities.