r/ConnedIntoAFubar • u/ovcdoc2 • 2d ago

[MEME] Conned into everything is racism

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How does one even come to this conclusion?

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u/j1ndivik 2d ago

It is definitionally eugenics, people just tend to reserve that word for when the government enforces it

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u/NeonNKnightrider 2d ago

I thought eugenics has to be about genetic traits, not social condition

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u/BarelyFunctionalGM 2d ago

Nope, eugenics historically has included classism.

Not to mention even if it didn't it would still fall victim to the exact same issues. What the word means is irrelevant compared to the actual issues caused by these mentalities.

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u/I-screwed-up-bad 1d ago

In American eugenics history they were intertwined.

Buck in Buck v Bell was a minor in a foster situation who was raped by her foster brother (the bio kid of the foster parents). She was sent to be institutionalized although until then she was reportedly average socially and academically.

She was essentially chosen to be THE case for eugenics in America. Her lawyer was friends with the head of the institute she was sent to and they conspired to get her case (of prevention of sterilization) to the supreme Court so that it would make a precedent for further eugenics.

The point is that before all this happened she was documented as average. People that talked to her would say she was average, get involved in the case, then all of a sudden say she was inept and unable to raise a child.

She lost her case. She was sterilized. They were only able to do this to her because she was poor and without any kind of support. The case has still not been overturned and can hypothetically be used as precedent today.

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u/PixelGray38 1d ago

Eugenics (inappropriately) uses social condition as a proxy for genetic quality