Fixed To Fail: Buck vs. Bell / Forced Sterilization Eugenics

While Virginia and other states have recently apologized for their role in the involuntary sterilization of those labeled as "feebleminded", the Supreme Court ruling that sanctioned those sterilizations has never been overruled - so the precedent still stands. But the case of Carrie Buck also established a precedent in deception: Carrie Buck's lawyer conspired with the opposing lawyer to guarantee that her challenge would fail, so that the sterilization law would be upheld by the highest court. This is a presentation revealing the strategy of deception that masquerades as justice in the US.

Producer: junya
Contact Information: http://www.headcity.com/FixedToFail
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News & Politics

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• Hitler
• nazism
• forced
• nazis
• compulsory
• sterilization
• eugenics
• Carrie
• Buck
• Bell
• genetics
• procreational
• autonomy
• versus
• pro

[stevesilvia]

Wow, what can I say? Great videos! You really know how to make a person think! Who knew?

[rosaryfilms]

stevesilvia, thank you very much!

[justJunya]

Wow - surprised to find this on YouTube!

Thanks for transferring this presentation (and credits) from the Internet Archive to YouTube, thus sharing it with a larger audience.

On my channel, I've just uploaded a version that is less choppy, easier to follow.

Thanks for watching.

[northvilletunnels]

1914, Battle Creek, Michigan hosted the First National Congress on Race Betterment - sponsored by John Harvey Kellogg - which proposed that 5.76 million Americans be sterilized. Eugenics was by now being taught at Universities around the country, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Clark. In 1915, Michigan hosted the Second National Conference on Race Betterment, again sponsored by John Harvey Kellogg. (inventor of corn flakes)

[djw11111]

I believe there is a case for eugenics, or at least sterilisation of those who cannot afford to feed their offspring. It seems like a harsh step to take but those who have children without having the means to support them are bringing misery to the world. Now you might say that it is their choice and that they should be allowed to bring children into the world who may not have food or education. I would respect that view. But don't demand that others pay for their children - it is theft.

[djw11111]

Just because Hitler advocated something does not automatically make it evil. If something is for the ill of mankind you should be able to explain why without resorting to an argument by association. Else you are prone to incorrect conclusions e.g. Hitler liked beer therefore beer is evil.

[northvilletunnels]

Everything Hitler learned about Eugenics he learned from Americans.

[josamen]

@northvilletunnels wow.....Hitler laughs at us from his grave.....laughs at the irony that people who once fought against him are embracing his corrupted system of lawless "values"

[NinjaChampionKO]

People are only stupid enough to have to abort a baby if they were too stupid to get pregnant and chicken out and decide to selfishly kill an unborn infant..

[justJunya]

David Starr Jordan, Stanford's first president, serving when Lewis Terman joined, was also a leading eugenicist - although he did not emphasize the negative eugenics ("dysgenics") of force as Terman did.

So let's not omit Stanford from the list of academic promoters of eugenics.

These eugenicists are memorialized in Palo Alto CA, home of Stanford, where two of its three middle schools are named in their honor (Jordan and Terman). The third is named after Jane Stanford.

[justJunya]

Stanford's psych chair and forced sterilization hawker in CA,Lewis Terman,developed his IQ test (used by Carrie's asylum and still in use) to detect the "feebleminded" and classify children for jobs. He wrote that it: "...will bring tens of thousands of these high-grade defectives under surveillance and protection of society. This will ultimately result in curtailing the reproduction of feeblemindedness and in the elimination of an enormous amount of crime,pauperism,and industrial inefficiency".

[justJunya]

Actually, eugenics forked before morphing. Inductive eugenicists (those reasoning that 3 and 5 are prime, therefore all odd numbers are prime) went on working in zoology/conservation, to be subsumed under ecology. Those seeking a more scientific basis for eugenics were among the pioneers in genetics. DNA pioneer James Watson's recent statement on the inferior intelligence of Africans confirmed that some great minds are still mired in hijacking science to serve their dogma of White Supremacy.