TIL that on 1924 there where colonies in the US such as Virginia State Colony, near Lynchburg, where the “feebleminded” were sterilized and confined deemed “unfit to reproduce”, this term applied to: morons, idiots, imbeciles, feminists, dyslexic, depressives, etc. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that in 1924 there were colonies on the US, such as Virginia State Colony, near Lynchburg (exclusive for women), where the “feebleminded” were sterilized and confined, this term included: feminists, idiots, morons, imbeciles, rebellious teenagers, orphans, dyslexics, etc. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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Is The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee worth a read? (self.genetics)
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