{"id":14235,"date":"2009-10-15T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T15:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14235"},"modified":"2009-10-14T22:27:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T03:27:48","slug":"american-eugenics-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/15\/american-eugenics-images\/","title":{"rendered":"American Eugenics Images"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 1926\u00a0eugenics poster (from autistics.org<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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From left to right the boxes say (and the left two are what we need less of, the right two what it says we need mroe of):<\/p>\n

This light flashes every 48 seconds. Every 48 seconds a person is born in the United States who will never grow up mentally beyond that stage of a normal 8 year old boy or girl.<\/p>\n

This light flashes every 50 seconds. Every 50 seconds a person is committed to jail in the United States. Very few normal<\/span> persons ever go to jail.<\/p>\n

This light flashes every 16 seconds. Every 16 seconds a person is born in the United States.<\/p>\n

This light flashes every 7 1\/2 minutes. Every 7 1\/2 minutes a high grade person is born in the United States who will have ability to do creative work and be fit for leadership. About 4% of all Americans come within this class.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s another example of the use of pseudoscience to\u00a0make racial arguments (via<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\"racism<\/p>\n

Notice that the “woman mulatto” is draw to appear extremely unattractive, and that while the white man and mulatto woman have a “pass-for-white” daughter, the son on the far left isn’t “pass-for-black”–he really is<\/em> black. The idea of “passing for black” made no sense at the time, while “passing for white” was a major concern. I am surprised to see here, though, that the baby of the pass-for-white woman and the white man is defined as entirely white.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of this makes any logical sense at all, but lots of supposedly scientific studies at the time applied many statistical and other methods to prove various racial arguments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 1926\u00a0eugenics poster (from autistics.org): From left to right the boxes say (and the left two are what we need less of, the right two what it says we need mroe of): This light flashes every 48 seconds. Every 48 seconds a person is born in the United States who will never grow up mentally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,2104,283,285,1760,1757,290],"class_list":["post-14235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-history","tag-knowledgeintelligence","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14239,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14235\/revisions\/14239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}