Thread by @kateneuropsych

@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox You have to Google "European Scientific society transcripts 17-1800s" or European medical societies archives" and they'll come up. I just click on every link provided and find all kinds of stuff (reputable sources only) another place to start is
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eugenicsarchive.ca

@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox Note that the who psychology fondly refers to as the "father of intelligence testing and psychometry" it's self is none other than Francis Galten (FG) who founded EUGENICS. That he's identified as the father of psych testing should also BE INSTRUCTIVE AS TO
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox HOW ITS BEEN USED in the service of White Supremacy.
That this is left out of textbooks, Academics & Clinical Education is also NOT AN ACCIDENT but rather is TANTAMOUNT to the APA taking up the position of denial and smells like lying by ommision. By not emphasizing
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox that Galton founded EUGENICS the APA (which supposedly represents not only the field of psychological but the entire body of practicing CLINICIANS and researchers) gets to conveniently side step all that came after as a result because the hands of psychology are dirty as
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox hell when it comes to White Supremacy both then and now and our Education as clinicians and researchers is loaded and laced with the same White Supremacy that infects all of science & medicine in practice and education. And here because the lack of disclosure is
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox intentional it reaches beyond mere denial into what is called guilty knowledge and since its ongoing, counts as active collusion. You can't bury the truth without digging your own grave.

"The term "eugenics" was coined by Sir Francis Galton in his 1883 book
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development and derives from the Greek "eu-genes", meaning "well-born." There Galton defines eugenics as "the science of improving stock—not only by judicious mating, but whatever tends to give the more suitable races or strains of
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox blood a better chance of prevailing over the less suitable than they otherwise would have had." Despite the fact that Galton's talk of "stock" and "strains of blood" require some 21st-century updating, this quote succinctly captures three key features of eugenics:

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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox its aim, the means of achieving that aim, and the relationship of eugenics to science. Galton's "stock" is our species, human beings, and his "strains of blood" are sort or kinds of people. Thus, eugenics aims to use science for human improvement over generations by changing
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox the composition of human populations through favouring the reproduction of certain sorts or kinds of people.

Although Galton characterized eugenics as itself a science, it was also a social movement, (and one he championed) that gained traction in many countries early in
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox the 20th-century. The most notorious national context for eugenics was that of Nazi Germany under the banner of "racial hygiene"—policies that resulted in the forced sterilization and killings of many disabled and Jewish people as part of state-sponsored policies
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox directed at "inferior peoples". But eugenic policies and laws also emerged in many North American jurisdictions, including in more than thirty states in the United States of America, and in western Canada with the introduction of the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox in 1928, and a derivative act in British Columbia in 1933. In recent years, historians and other researchers and community activists have drawn attention to the broader reach of the eugenics movement across the globe."

Now what's not said here is that White Christianity
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox informed ALL THESE WHITE MALE SUPREMACIST IDEAS and White European men "of science and medicine" strove to MAKE science justify the the idea that Af-Am were less than human, defective humans, that darker skinned native populations subjected to genocide, enslavement
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox and brutal labor practices across the European empire were defective human "refuse" (see miscegenation-& yet WM engaged in rape as a way if increasing their slave "stock" & to breed very light skinned Af-Am women for purchase as sexual slaves) & to develop scientific
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox explanations proving women were also defective and wholly inferior in comparison to Superior White men (& we know WM are Superior because God gave dominion over the earth and all its inhabitants to WM). All of this is and was the kind is pretzelization that typically marks
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox people hell bent on the sadistic oppression of others for their pleasure and benefits which is exactly what WM/WP did and continue to do by maintaining the system that affords WP and especially WM the inherented benefits of privilege and power while denying
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox the same to all others. It's not that WP/WM today enslaved Africans/Af-Ams that makes them GUILTY, all they have to do IS NOTHING TO CHANGE it in order to MAINTAIN their privilege and power which equally guarantees the preservation of that same
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@DrHelenT78 @dranniehickox system in perpetuity, for their White sons.
In much the same way psychology continues to participate in maintaining White male Supremacy via passive collusion instead of spearheading the call to dismantle the system of White Supremacy.
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