TIL part of the left supported eugenics during most of the 20th century
A Brave New World: The Left, Social Engineering, and Eugenics in Twentieth-Century Europe* - Volume 55 Issue 2
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Eugenics can sound pretty appealing until you take a moment to really think about it and aren't the type to just be okay with whatever suffering you may cause in the name of the "greater good".
And making it illegal to have children with close relatives is a form of eugenics, i.e. it's still practiced and widely accepted in most western countries.
Appealing or appalling? Big difference.
Hell, providing free condoms to low-income public schools is eugenics and we all agree that it's a good thing
No, it isn't. Eugenics is about changing genetic distributions, and low-income is not a genetically passed trait. If you ONLY gave the free condoms to black students at those schools and encouraged the white students to not use condoms, then I'd agree with you. Or if you only gave the condoms to kids who weren't getting good grades or were bad at sports, then I'd agree with you.
But blindly giving out condoms to a large population without any look at genetics is not eugenics.
How exact does it need to be? There are plenty of ways to collect and organize the data. There are plenty of low-income schools. If you only gave out free condoms at the ones that were 90% black (but given to all students there), would that count?