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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (284492)	4/18/2006 8:45:52 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584598

"Eugenics in America was always racially based" Nonsense. As the rest of the article indicates, eugenics laws in the US were primarily aimed at the retarded and the insane. If those cases of forced sterilization were examined, probably all of them were because they were retarded or insane. Now true, some of them would have been also a minority, but it is not like they were grabbed off the street because their skin was too dark.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (284492)	4/18/2006 8:14:33 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584598

Re: Seriously, Gus, you are cracking me up with this nonsense that Europe's colonies got racist all on their own. Europe birthed us.......we are only behaving as mom taught us to behave. ;-) Actually, you've overdone "mom's teachings": The American experience shows how rapidly the enthusiasm for eugenics could sweep a civilised country and be turned into punitive law. The United Kingdom was rare and lucky to avoid what happened in most of Europe. Seriously, Gus, you are starting to sound like the Republicans on this thread......bringing up America's past to justify what Europe is doing in the present [every time anyone complains about Bush, they bring up some Dem misadventure from the last two centuries]. Yes, America had a racist past. Yes, there are still Americans who are racist. That doesn't change the fact that Europe has yet to go where America has been on this issue. Like I've said before, Europe is America in the 1960s.