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The era when Britain locked up shoplifters, single mothers and ‘moral imbeciles’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIs there any miscarriage of justice more grievous than a badly framed law? Historian Sarah Wise...
Delaware forcibly sterilized her mother. She's now ready to share the state's dark secret.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoIn August of 1930, Ethel Benson was institutionalized into the Delaware Colony for the Feeble Minded...
Children as young as 10 and rape victims were sterilized in Utah as late as the 1970s. Time is...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoImpoverished men were employed to carry pro-eugenic propaganda signs in Wall Street, New York City,...
Skyler Howes charges into World Rally Raid championship with Dakar podium momentum
NBC Sports via Yahoo Sports· 1 year ago“Keep it simple, stupid” might seem feeble-minded anathema to Skyler Howes, who became the fifth...
Margaret Sanger Did Not Advocate 'Exterminating the Negro Population'
Snopes via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLibrary of Congress Catalog/Wikimedia Commons A quote from birth control advocate and sometime...
The shameful support of eugenics by the Lewiston Evening Journal
Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 4—Over the course of 175 years and more than 2 million pages of newsprint, it's no surprise the Lewiston Falls Journal and its successors have on occasion gotten some things wrong, sometimes ...
Bill Maher Turns His ‘Real Time’ Guns On Hollywood’s Action Movies As A Root Cause Of Violence
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the wake of mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas, many people are crying out for someone to “do...
For 134 years, Chemung County housed its disadvantaged people at a poorhouse in Breesport
The Star Gazette via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Chemung County poorhouse opened in 1837 in a log house on a Breesport farm. It housed women, “deaf and dumb people, blind people, the feeble-minded, and idiots,” according to an 1891 report ...
Novel based on Malaga Island's history is a finalist for National Book Award
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 3—A novel based on the real-life atrocity on Maine's Malaga Island in the early 20th century is a finalist for the National Book Award. "This Other Eden" by New York author Paul Harding ...
Trump should ditch the King James version of the Bible. What about the King Donald version?
Palm Beach Daily News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoDonald Trump’s latest effort to fleece his feeble-minded flock doesn’t go far enough. A month after...