Caltech to Remove the Names of Robert A. Millikan and Other Eugenics Proponents
Damn, 130 million americans were once under forced sterilization laws pushed by the human betterment foundation (HBF) which was chaired by those guys.<p>It seems like such a waste of time to do all this renaming stuff for a bunch of hyper-sensitive freshmen (freshpeople?) but some of the sterilizations were for things like &#x27;insanity&#x27; &#x27;feeblemindedness&#x27; &#x27;mentally diseased&#x27; &#x27;mentally defective&#x27; and applied to you if you were below 70% of the average intelligence of your age group.<p>I certainly wouldn&#x27;t like to live under those laws yet some part of me still values eugenics. Vasectomy for thee but not for me I guess.<p>I remember something about nazi schools teaching children the sterilised were victims of their ancestors, not nazi society. From what I recall they even had laws against treating the sterilised with contempt. Very progressive.<p>Here&#x27;s some newspaper clippings by the HBF.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loc.gov&#x2F;resource&#x2F;rbpe.0020380g&#x2F;?st=gallery" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.loc.gov&#x2F;resource&#x2F;rbpe.0020380g&#x2F;?st=gallery</a>