(01-19-2020, 08:00 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(01-19-2020, 06:00 PM)jj82284 Wrote: Where did the Nuremberg laws come from?  What was eugenic science?  Was it purely anti-semitic or did it have other applications?  How did that correlate to sexually adventurous women?  

Let's take this in baby steps

I thought we were talking about if cancel culture could be a prelude to something like Nazism.

We both know the answers to your questions.

1) Nuremburg. But the idea that a Jew can not be a loyal citizen is almost as old as Judaism itself.  You find bad guys saying this in the books of Daniel and Esther in the Bible 
2) Eugenics is the idea that humans could be improved through selective breeding.  In the 1930s, people didn't know which traits were genetic and which were not.  They were guessing.  They also implemented this idea by forcibly sterilizing people, which is now considered a crime against humanity.
3) At least some of the Eugenicists were not anti-Semitic at all.  
4) in the US, poor or less intelligent women who were stereotyped as sexually adventurous or at least sexually compliant were targeted for forced sterilization by eugenicists.  Early on, these were usually black women.  Later, native women were targeted this way. While women are voluntarily sterilized every day in the US, let's hope it's not being done forcibly, here or anywhere, and fight people who propose it

So how does any of this tie back to cancel culture?