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Some eugenics news items of interest…<\/p>\n

In Dissertation Reviews,<\/em> Alison Bateman-House reviews Bradley Hart’s dissertation<\/a> (Cambridge, 2011; Richard Evans, advisor) on eugenics in Britain, the U.S., and Germany begs\u00a0the musical question, “Really? Another dissertation on American, German, and British eugenics? Not clear what’s new here, other than\u00a0casting\u00a0the oldest comparison in the history of eugenics in the trendy language of things like “transnational context.”\u00a0Haven’t read it yet myself, but I am curious about the argument of chapter 2 that of the three nations, only\u00a0in the US was the eugenics program not derailed by WWI. Is Hart a\u00a0Rassenhygiene-<\/em>denier?<\/p>\n

If you or someone you love\u00a0was sterilized under North Carolina’s 1959\u00a0“Jolly Bill,” which sought to solve the problem of out-of-wedlock births by sterilization, you have until the end of June to file for compensation under the class-action suit. <\/a>The Tarheels are sorry, but although the eugenicists were tried, their patience is too. Jolly indeed.<\/p>\n

I knew that Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist with some ugly views on race, but I didn’t know that conservatives think I don’t know that<\/a>. Another thing I didn’t know is that\u00a0everyone in the Progressive era was racist. Gee, you learn the most interesting facts on teh interwebs! Really, though, can we be a little more careful with our language? It’s one thing to caution against judging\u00a0historical actors in terms of present-day ethics; it’s another to assert that “Literally everything we have here [in the U.S.] is a result of the less douchebaggy moments of racists.”\u00a0Because if that’s true, then everything we have here is also a result of the less douchebaggy moments of\u00a0sexists. Sanger was criticized at the time<\/em> for her views on race.\u00a0We can admire\u00a0Sanger’s courage on sex and gender while criticizing her on race.\u00a0That’s okay: this is history, not a fairy tale.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Huh. Apparently,\u00a0the new fad in Hollywood<\/a> is transhumanism<\/a>. The Center for Genetics and Society reviews\u00a0Transcendence, <\/em>a new film that\u00a0\u00a0addresses issues such as regenerative and synthetic biology, consciousness uploads, and other sci-fi fantasies. Curious about the film–okay, I guess “film” is stretching it–even if it is trashy. Especially if it’s trashy, actually.\u00a0I’m still uncomfortably on the fence about the linking of creepy things like prenatal genetic diagnosis and eugenics to good clean fun like making yourself into a cat or a lizard. But\u00a0into the breach we go, it seems. New rule: When Johnny Depp does it, it’s no longer edgy.<\/p>\n

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