Eugenics is something I have been interested in for a very long time. The word was first coined by Sir Francis Galton: The guy who made the Galton board you probably used during probability class. He was the cousin of Charles Darwin, which is why he thought about evolution with humans. The word was thought of recently but the practice has been done since ancient times. Plato wrote about it in works, but the example that is most widely known is the Spartans. In Spartan society when a child is born it was brought before a council which would decide if the child was weak or deformed, and therefore undeserving of life. In this way Eugenics is not inherently racist, but rather ableist because it promotes the idea that the physically or mental deformed deserve to die. Plato also wrote about how he would make a mating lottery which the public would believe is random, but in reality he would use it to pair those he deemed genetically superior together so they could make strong children. H...
mean babies https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies-six-months-u-t-research-reveals I was told this is a bad title but I think it catches the eye so I will keep it. The study claims babies as young as six months associate sad music with people of a different race. This is not really racism but rather a infants natural reaction to unfamiliar faces. So if its not racism then why am I writing about this? Well, it was one of my most interesting questions but also I think if you want your children to not be racist then its important to know that if you don't expose these babies to people of other races then they might develop a fear of them. I think some people just assume that their kids will just grow up to never be racist, but if they're already grown up then it would be very hard to make them not racist. So its important to keep in mind that you need to teach them to not be racist. As a related question about kids raised by wolves being racist, I could not find...
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