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How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
the British eugenics movement believed that social class was determined by biological factors such as intelligence, health and the vague criteria of ‘moral values’.
from Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Reni Eddo-Lodge
it is too easy to only blame the eugenic systems out there without also examining how our private thoughts and judgments reflect and reproduce a dominant imagination that values specific lives over others. The first, perhaps most difficult, step toward exorcising eugenic ideas from our institutions is by reckoning with the ways that white supremacy
... See morefrom Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short) by Ruha Benjamin