ANTHRO 128B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eugenics Record Office, Charles Davenport, Social Darwinism
17 Jul 2018
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Anthro 128b race, gender, science -- lecture 8 . ~other groups are less biologically fit to live in us negative effects. ~based on social darwinism (social sphere effected by these laws) ~humans can intervene to direct own social environment. +best interest of humans that newborns are fit for contemporary environment. +best interest of everyone that better people reproduce. ~argue that heredity must be a conscious decision. Those with bad heredity are a drain on our resources. ~focus on getting more people that you do want. ~interest in human genes was a eugenics movement. +pick out good genes and weed out bad ones. ~focus on how to get rid of people with bad heredity. ~america needs less of less intelligent people, people in jail, unproductive people. ~more people in america that are unproductive than productive. +do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to fall i(cid:374) lo(cid:448)e (cid:449)ith a(cid:374)(cid:455) perso(cid:374) ~da(cid:448)e(cid:374)port: (cid:862)o(cid:374)e of the ai(cid:373)s of euge(cid:374)i(cid:272)s is to ha(cid:448)e people fall i(cid:374) lo(cid:448)e i(cid:374)tellige(cid:374)tl(cid:455)(cid:863)
