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Cattledog

(5,919 posts) Tue Oct 2, 2018, 10:02 AM Oct 2018

"Can we build a wall high enough around this country to keep out these cheaper races,"

Charles Davenport asked his friend in 1920.

A proponent of Eugenics crusade, Charles Davenport believed that selective breeding could transform the human race. He founded the Eugenics Record Office in 1910 and recommended widespread eugenics education, including immigration laws to keep out the "defectives" and forced sterilization of native born and immigrants.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eugenics-charles-davenport/

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"Can we build a wall high enough around this country to keep out these cheaper races," (Original Post) Cattledog Oct 2018 OP

I'm not going to lie - when I first saw the quote / title of the post... NorCen_CT Oct 2018 #1

NorCen_CT

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1. I'm not going to lie - when I first saw the quote / title of the post...

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Oct 2, 2018, 10:12 AM

Oct 2018

I thought it was going to be a Steve King quote (I can definitely see him saying this).

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