War Against the Weak
Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
by Edwin Black · first published 2003
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Same thing for US and various disabled citizens during the 1950s to 1970s. A good refresher is this book "War Against the Weak", by Edwin Black. https://books.google.com/books/about/War_Against_the_Weak.ht...
Ummmm, read "War Against the Weak" by Edwin Black. You are a bit incorrect, no, a lot incorrect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Black
on “Substack's Dilemma” ↗…https://www.networkworld.com/article/2333702/a-history-of-si... . This was a time when it was acceptable, indeed it was progressive, to be violently hostile to difference or defectiveness: see for example War Against the Weak https://waragainsttheweak.com/ and, maybe most especially, The Black Stork https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-black-stork-9780... . And of course it's no coincidence that the pioneers of statistics…
on “How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives” ↗…truths in a world intent on hiding from them." You wonder if they'd really be exempt from their own "programs of genetic improvement." 1. https://archive.ph/eILU7 2. https://books.google.com/books/about/War_Against_the_Weak.ht... 3. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-021-00961-5
on “Can growth continue?” ↗…punishing the usual victims, i.e. minorities and poor whites. In this regard, I find this case deeply disturbing, and would prefer if he simply got a definite sentence. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Against_the_Weak
on “Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order” ↗