Thread by @fascinatorfun

Chilling :-
“Bertrand Russell proposed colour-coded “procreation tickets” to prevent the elite’s gene pool being diluted by inferior stock”

It gets worse. All those authors on whom you have lavished praise?

bylinetimes.com/2020/02/17/eug…

“ Bernard Shaw insisted that “the only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man”, suggesting that defectives could be dealt with in a “lethal chamber”.

As for DH Lawrence. I’m feeling queasy..

Labour MP Archibald Church wished to stop reproduction of those who are in every way a burden to their parents, a misery to themselves and in my opinion a menace to the social life of the community”.

Beatrice and Sidney Webb and Harold Laski

The time was coming “when society will look upon the production of a weakling as a crime in itself”

Bertrand Russell proposed colour coded procreation tickets to prevent the élite’s gene pool being diluted by inferior stock.

Shaw?

Shaw suggested “defectives” should be dealt with in lethal chambers.

I am feeling very very sick.

Beverage : welfare state.

“Many defectives are utterly helpless, repulsive in appearance and revolting in manners...in my opinion it would be an economical and humane procedure were their very existence to be painlessly terminated”.

I keep wondering. What if those of us who looked at them and thought THEY were, in important ways, defective.

Would they be sanguine about being “painlessly terminated”?