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Why I don't use the insult "moron" or its related epithets. "Imbecile." "Idiot."

#Ableism #eugenics

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/
Screencap from Mother Jones article: "Eugenics introduced a “harder” concept of a biologically determined, undeserving poor as a central object of data collection. The US psychologist and eugenicist Henry Goddard played an especially critical role. He first introduced the term “moron” in medicine to establish a multi-tiered classification for the “feeble- minded”. With fellow eugenicists, he strove to prove low intelligence as the primary indicator of deficient self-control, criminality, alcoholism, laziness, prostitution, and even political dissent."

Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech

A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
Mother Jones
#eugenics #ableism
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