May 022004
60 Minutes is airing a piece on the eugenics movement which sprang up in America back in the 1920s. I have an interest in this area became the Nazis used eugenics to justify the extermination of thousands of people with disabilities, which I got to read all about when I was doing research for a law journal article. A lot of otherwise intelligent people bought into eugenics and saw it as a way of bettering the human race, when it really was old prejudices and hatreds dressed up as respectable science.
I can bitch all I want to about being sick, but at least I didn’t have my surgical staples give out, letting my innards spill out of me. Yeesh.
