The university’s response was likely the quickest show of police force in response to a divestment protest among the dozens nationwide that have occurred in recent weeks. It was also probably the only one where pepper balls, stun guns and rubber bullets were used against students, faculty and community members – at one of the few student protests in the south to date.
Please, do go on.
I’m surprised I got downvoted. I didn’t think this bit of history was that unknown.
This is about British and Scandinavian eugenics. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/eugenics-founding-fathers-british-socialism-archive-1997
Galton, Darwin’s brother, was the leading proponent. https://www.nicholls.edu/cheniere/2021/05/20/eugenics-in-the-united-states-the-forgotten-movement/
As a leftist myself, I’m horrified by it, but we need to know our history.