Richard Dawkins on abortion [Spirituality & Religion]

@bijouxbroussard any with birthdays in the 20c? Did they all die supporting eugenics

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I couldn’t say. That they supported the idea at any point in their lives while contemporaries did not is significant, especially WEB DuBois because he knew that white doctors, especially in the South, were regularly sterilizing Native and African American girls and women without their knowledge or consent.

@bijouxbroussard so what were you trying to say? At first I thought you were normalizing the belief of eugenics, since all these decent, well respected people bought into it, but now it seems you're saying the opposite: anyone ever tainted with eugenicism is basically bad

@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP I guess what I’m saying is that it’s a complicated issue. They were all widely respected but apparently had their reasons for supporting eugenics. And while it didn’t have the stigma then that it came to, especially after the Nazis adopted certain practices, it was still considered a way of being rid of those considered “lesser” or “defective” beings.