"You know damn well why" end
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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“Science was God at that time. So they supported the law and social engineering”, says Runcis. “It was the scientific way to clean the society of the ‘feeble minded’”.
I wonder if actual scientists had any actual (but mistaken, obviously) proof back then, or if it was like it is today where un-scientific people are cherry-picking and misreading science to fit their own wishes and agendas.
Racial hygiene was a big thing, especially in Germany but also all over the, western, world. But even before the nazis and the holocaust, there were plenty of scientists who opposed it, not for moral reasons but for scientific ones. The data werent there, in fact the data indicated exactly the opposite. People just started with an assumption(we are superior) and then tried to find data that confirmed that.
You had cool things like phrenology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology
Which said that each "race" had different skulls. Except this was a very easily falsifiable hypothesis because you know, we had skulls and we could measure them. Yet despite that, it was a prominent theory, popular even among scientists.
Change take decades or even centuries. People who went to school in the 1920s and 1930s(when those theories were popular) were very prominent figures in societies in the 1950s and 1960s. Thats why young people and education are so important, they shape the future and define reality.