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- Trace the history of the eugenics movement in the US, and discover how the belief in ideal genetics led to forced sterilizations.
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Since ancient Greece, humans have controlled populations via reproduction, retaining some traits and removing others. But in the 19th century, a new scientific movement dedicated to this endeavor emerged: eugenics. Scientists believed they could improve society by ensuring that only desirable traits were passed down. Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira detail the history of eugenics in the US.
Lesson by Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira, directed by Héloïse Dorsan-Rachet.
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“This may sound like a story from an authoritarian regime but it actually happened in [ the United States ]” is a phrase which could be used for a lot of events in history
Not really seeing as the USA is only 250 years old
Yeah not really buddy
@@ZackyDaley and is the only truly free and tolerant multi cultural nation that has ever existed.
@@ZackyDaley 250 years of slavery, eugenics, bloody wars, widespread racism etc. etc. Does sound like an authoritarian country to me.
@@ZennExile /s
As a US citizen, I am shocked at how little our country’s ‘bad’ history is taught to us. I had never even heard of this until I came across this video.
That’s why CRT is needed. But you know that cuntservatives use the “it teaches kids of color to hate on white people” as a scapegoat
Another form of sterilization that was also started during the Eugenics era and is still continued today is male circumcision. Many “doctors” would use no anesthesia and would sometimes even purposefully cut off parts of the male genitalia to prevent masturbation.
Every US president is a war criminal even wrose than Putin sadly, and I say that as a proantiwar polish socialist, who actively supports refugees from Ukraine
You don't get out much, do you?
You would be horrified with the actions of your government in central and south America. Check operation condor or banana republics ://
Thank you for mentioning Japan and Sweden. They are being seen us “perfect” countries these days, but no country is perfect. Racial prejudices still exist in these countries.
Japan is far from perfect. It's becoming a huge nursing home. Not to mention the Japanese can be rude and cold-hearted...
Lol, not to be rude but the younger generation sees Japan as anything but “perfect”
Lmao dont have to look back to hard to see how bad Japan can be. Arguably on par, or even worse, than the Nazis.
Who sees Japan as perfect other than delusional weeaboos?
@@solaris5922 あなたに教わなくて結構ですw
I was shocked by this story. I’m a Japanese, and I wasn’t taught carefully at school that such an operation had been done until recent years. I consider it’s important for us to accept this fact and look at people who’s suffering from it now.
Nanjing massacre, you should watch a video or read about it, if you haven't heard about it already (this is one of the reasons why China hates Japan)
Japan did much much worse
@@mattiabonati1453 and they don't teach their kids about it. There are even shrines dedicated to prolific war criminals.
Also look into unit 731. Made the death camps in Europe look tame
Japanese' comfort women during WW2. There's also that.
You guys should also cover the history of human zoos. That is another part of history not well known
You mean like NYC?
@@DegreesOfThree Yes
@@lakelurker08 Someone has to keep these clowns in check. I like the animation, but if I feel obligated to raise an objection when they state things that are factually incorrect or when they omit important details.
@@DegreesOfThree I don't think blabing and not bringing anything factual nor referenced comment as you do is keeping anyone in check. It is called recreational arguing. Not serving any purpose and even less that of facts and evidence sharing.
Where can we read more? reliable resources I mean
Sweden was already mentioned, but this happened in other Nordic countries as well. Sweden, Norway and Finland are all guilty of doing this to the Sámi people. Also in Finland the practice of sterilizing disabled people continued until at least the 1960s, my aunt who was born in 1947 remembers this practice in her youth working as a nurse. It's horrific.
Last time I checked, trans people are still sterilized here in finland
It s based
@@justanaverage1762 So if we decide that people who say "based" should be genocided, you will be on board right? Since you are cool with dehumanizing others for arbitrary reasons?
@@justanaverage1762 yeah it actually makes sense but people who read comic books and think that everyone is entitled to everything will disagree. “NOOO WE CANT STOP THIS DISABKED PERSON FROM MAKING MORE DISABLED PEOPLE BATMAN WOUDKNT DO THAT NOOOO!!!”
@@justanaverage1762 sociopath
I had a history teacher my sophomore year of high briefly talk about this, she encouraged us to look this but didn't go into details because she said she could be suspended if not fired for talking about it because it was a banned topic to teach. She said there were so many subjects banned in comparison to her school days and said she felt sorry for us and future generations
American history classes really try to portray a super narrow look that portrays the US as the good guys, from what I've heard. I've run into many Americans who never learned about many of the things their country did. Almost universally, the bad parts are left out.
@@CryptP From my experience in the American school system, from my grade school days and beyond, people and lawmakers go to great lengths to ban "unsavory" history topics. They're very much like "it doesn't teach positivity and learning negative history encourages us to hate people" is generally what they say 🙄 a lot of topics they basically leave it up to the students to learn on their own time or their parents to teach on their own... I can say I would've never known about the Eugenics movement if my sister didn't randomly turn it on one day out of curiosity. It was so aggregous I had to take breaks and come back to it smh 🤦🏾♀️
America, land of the free, right?
@@CatBloom42 land of the fee
Really? What state are you in?
This happened in Denmark too :( Since we're an island nation, the government chose a small island to become a jail for "mentally unfit" women where they would receive this procedure. Being "promiscuous" was enough for this to happen
i mean to be fair not being promiscuous would be a good idea i dont thin sterilization is the answer but maybe keep em in prison until they agree to marry?
@@constantineergius1626 eh no, how about everyone else just mind their own business and stop throwing stones in glass houses
@@constantineergius1626 what is wrong with you??
Denmark still practices eugenics via abortion.
@@swaminim7058 i um dont want the population collapse to continue and i care about the people of our nation regardless of race would you rather me be wearing a klan hood and pusing eugenics?
This is why we should always be wary of anybody attempting to rewrite history. He who owns the past owns the future.
Actually the video itself was trying to rewrite the history.
@@XOPOIIIO How so?
And He who controls the present controls the past.
@@echelonanglo2226 by lying about history?
@@NJP-Supremacist say what they are lying about then, quit the mistery
It's important to mention that it's not just rhe racism that makes eugenics wrong, but the forced sterilization and segregation for any reason, be it physical, mental, or others
@@NJP-Supremacist My brain being built diff than yours is not a reason to force my sterilization or to force me to conform to your desired way of my conforming.
Im autistic, this means they very well may have forced me to be sterilized had i been born a century ago. Im also intersex, so they wudve forcibly sterilized and "corrected" me at birth for that reason.
You want to act like this stuff was or is okay bcuz... You want to be edgy? You truly are that bigoted and just desire to spread hate and are closing your ears and eyes to anythin refuting your belief? Youre just a mean person who likes bein mean online cuz its the only place you can do it and not get punched in the face for it?
Yeah! Everyone with Huntington Disease, ADL, and Glucose-Galactose should be able to reproduce as much as they want!
The children? WHO CARES! HUMAN RIGHTS, BABY!
Thank you. Race has been used as an excuse to commit these horrors. But let's not pretend that any excuse wouldn't do for a eugenecist.
nothing you think is important is probably important. that's a bit of free advice I hope you cash it in.
@@trevorswansonbtw
TH-cam is very happy to make many comments disappear under this video.
I am shocked to know that such ideologies and (mis)interpretation of Darwin's 'survival of the fittest' was so widespread in the 19 century. I always believed that it was the Nazis that belived in this view and acted upon it in such horrendous ways. I never knew this was being done in the United States too and that too well until the 1970s! That's more than 2 decades after WW II ended...
Thanks, Ted-Ed fo bringing such stories to light so people can learn from the actions and mistakes of the past.
...and here comes the saddest part of it all. It does not matter how much we learn of the past to "not repeat those mistakes"... because if the agenda is good enough, if there is some profit (doesn't have to be money) to be gained from whatever action/idea/practice in question, the horror is no longer the issue. People will keep on repeating and repeating and repeating those mistakes. Why? Because we are selfish, greedy and cowardly by default; elimination of any real or imaginary threat to one's lifestyle must be dealt with no matter the cost and /or consequences.
@@sahrajama1515 Charles Darwin did not endorse the idea of a superior race based on intelligence, but more of his own preferred characteristics. The countries with the highest IQ are predominantly from East Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Singapore). Most of the technology that have been developed by Europeans are actually reinventions from other ethnic groups like China, such as gun powder, paper, the compass and so on. Polynesians built their own sailboats before the arrival of the European voyagers. They were also able to navigate with the Moon, Sun and Stars giving them the nickname the "Navigator Islands". Charles once quoted "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most Intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change". Stating that the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to withstand the changes in which it finds itself whether it be physical (ethnicity), social (culture), political (War), Spiritual (religion), environmental (Natural disasters & Disease). ERA = Evolution Rules All.
Unfortunately Darwin himself was a known eugenicist. Eugenics is man's attempt to play God, but moreso than this, it is deeply immoral. Due to this immorality we should not practice eugenics.
God bless America ?!! 😑
@@theenlightenedone1283 There is not one sinless nation. There are however plenty of nations who do not feel bad about what they did in the past.
America is probably the only nation which is so guilt-ridden. Go to Europe and they are proud of their colonial history. Go to Asia and they try to hide the genocides they did commit. Only in the United States is the trail of tears taught in schools and anti-american sentiment informed because of it.
I honestly had no idea the in-depth issues surrounding this topic until I was assigned the case of Buck v. Bell for my Constitutional Law class. Thank you for making this video on a matter that needs to be more heavily discussed in classrooms.
Another form of sterilization that was also started during the Eugenics era and is still continued today is male circumcision. Many “doctors” would use no anesthesia and would sometimes even purposefully cut off parts of the male genitalia to prevent masturbation.
@@rose-a-bleu4281 so the Jews are sterilized?
Or did you mean 'under the guise' of circumcision sterilization was performed?
Obviously that's different. I've not specifically heard of that yet...gonna look into it. The world is a twisted place
@@B.Mega.D ‘under the guise’ yes and not even towards Jews, often times back then and still some today many doctors don’t use anesthesia when preforming circumcisions.
@@B.Mega.D not to also mention, before circumcision became popularized, Jews only removed a small part of the foreskin, not the entire foreskin like how it is today.
This is basically same as roe v. wade. Looks who always have abortion.
Finally, discussing the evils of eugenics is becoming mainstream. It's really sad to see how common it is for everyday people from all over the world to hold eugenic beliefs.
While most of people don't believe in race based eugenics, almost everyone participates in eugenics when they choose partners based on their preferred traits
So you imply that features are not hereditary?
@@Ghostrider-ul7xn everyone discriminates based on race, but yeah
Genetics is a eugenic belief
@@XOPOIIIO that people need to be sterilized for race or flaws
You left out that Nazis murdered millions of Slavic people. I don't understand why Eastern European victims of Nazism are always forgotten and left out.
Because the east is boogeyman bad
Because slavs don't control the western institutions
Very true
Because they're white and it doesn't fit the narrative
I agree, extreme ideologies destroyed human civilizations.
Forced sterilization should be considered a violation of human rights, constitution or no constitution. I can't imagine the pain and trauma that comes from your ability to have children stripped away against your will.
That's weird to think about but yes,it's as painful as being rickrolled
@@maryeverett2266 what are you talking about?
This video has very little views, but this is the family of one of the victims. th-cam.com/video/bXn3IzQTDOg/w-d-xo.html
@@maryeverett2266 go back to the barbaric Middle Ages. They want their views back
@@maryeverett2266 yes!! let’s start off with you mary. take one for the team and go play in traffic ❤️
Unfortunately THIS STILL HAPPENS.
As read in a whistleblower report, apparently an alarmingly high number of hysterectomies were performed on Spanish-speaking women in ICE detention centers.
Women, who have been detained by Ice at Irwin county detention center in Georgia, have alleged that they underwent invasive and unnecessary medical procedures.
@Daniel E. In other words: they don't like poor brown people. Yes, I also think that's why they forced/pressured hysterectomies on them.
@Daniel E. "Some brown people make bad choices so none of them should have children" but dressed up to sound fancy
@Daniel E. Justification for violating human rights... Apparently, people have not learnt from the past
@@lunaxxx674 How can it not be eugenics to systematically eliminate people with down-syndrome and push mothers to do the same? I've known people with down syndrome and they aren't suffering and are frankly amazing people. To say that they don't deserve to live because of their "suffering" is a horrible insult.
Also, those tests are so bad that they have a greater chance of being wrong than right. We are so obsessed with keeping the population free of such "horrible" disabilities like down syndrome that we are happy to recommend that mothers terminate hundreds of perfectly healthy babies just so we can catch the ones who are disabled. Please explain how that is not eugenics?
@@Asharra12 when did I ever say down syndrome?
I recently read a paper about the eugenics politics and laws in Denmark in the early half of the 20th century. Although we did not sterilize as many individuals as in other countries, many mentally disabled, handicapped and/or criminals was put behind bars or in institutions for life, and thereby isolating them from the rest of society. Some people were put away just because they were deamed un-proper, “misbehaving”, and outside the norm and there were laws preventing certain kinds of people to marry, so they wouldn’t bring children into the world. Just being poor was a factor counting against you in the political game of eugenics.
It was truly horrible to read about
Major criminals should never be fully released until they are proven to no longer be a danger to anyone.
Iceland still does it, there hasn’t been one Down syndrome born there for the past decade because of recommended abortion of disabled children
and today loads of people abort their kids when they find out they have down syndrome.. Its the modern version in Denmarks case.
@@danielabatabogdanov8586good. Dwarves shouldn't reproduce either.
What they forget to mention about the "Latino" population, was that it was continued genocide and erasure of a largely Native American/Indigenous population. Especially throughout California and the Southwest, a significant percentage of the "Hispanic" population is mixed-indigenous, although displaced through generations after assimilation into Mexican/Spanish missions and culture. Between this and residential schools, it's even more amazing that the culture has persisted and people are waking back up to their native roots today. Please, everyone share this.
That was something I thought too. There was a period in California where indigenous people had to pretend to be Hispanic due to laws that effectively made it illegal to be an indigenous person in public.
@@EmotionsNeverLie exactly why so many people trying to reconnect today are having a hard time doing so 😔
Not to mention as well, that Blood Quantum was developed by Eugenics-trained scientists to determine a person's "Indianness". These scientists did things like measure the size of cheek bones, noted what color someone's skinned turned when scratched, and used things like that to determine the initial enrollment numbers of all tribes. It's something we're still under to this day, and it has been referred to as "The Paper Genocide" because it was designed to breed us out of existence.
This is what makes the whole
"Go back to Mexico" narrative so infuriating.
What real difference does it make if someone's native ancestors lived in northern California or Baja California?
We were colonized by the Spaniards all the same.
The Anglos simply decided to draw a straight line across the desert is all.
@@vinny9868 🙌🏽👏🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
I feel like a common eugenics trend that isn't talked about enough, though it seems to be getting a little more attention lately, is how eugenicist people can be against neurodivergent people on the autism spectrum. Remember all the pushback against vaccines that some people generate because they believe the "vaccines cause autism" myth and are so afraid of their child being autistic.
On TikTok, Alot of People talk about it but see as playing victims by people who didn't want the truth
Is being autistic or having down syndrome good ? Do you think is it ?
Why should you not be afraid of your child being born autistic?
you should be afraid of your child being autistic; it's a mental disability. Doesn't matter how much Hollywood or the media attempt to romanticize the condition:
th-cam.com/video/R4y7xc1j490/w-d-xo.html
Don’t forget that Hans Asperger (yes, THAT Asperger) personally oversaw the IQ testing and subsequent killings of tens of thousands of children on the Spectrum. Of the few that he saved, all were “high-functioning” and male. Girl children with autism, regardless of their abilities, were not spared, as excessively analytical personalities were considered “highly masculine.”
Roughly 500,000 to 750,000 people deemed “mentally deficient” were murdered by the Third Reich. Over half of them were children. A quarter were under the age of three.
Don’t put his name on our community.
I know someone personally who was sterilized without her knowledge, it’s terrifying. The story she told me is truly horrifying and her scar is so large, they butchered her.
Where do they sterilize them?
@@kevinduliesco5468 my friend went to the hospital in Philadelphia complaining of abdominal pain. They immediately took her into exploratory surgery, and when she woke up they had removed her uterus and ovaries and told her she had an ovarian cyst that was causing the pain. Her scar ran from her bellybutton down and she had been stapled back together. Her story literally brings me to tears I cannot fathom being treated this way, it is a true nightmare
My god. That’s horrifying :(
Did she sue them?
The circumstance is sad, but if the cyst was life threatening it had to go. The same is true with amputations. It's not always possible to salvage these things.
I have read several of the books promoting eugenics from the turn of the century.
On the surface, their arguments sound good and logical, even very scientific.
Such as , "you wouldn't want weeds to grow in your garden" and "No farmer is going to let his defective livestock breed with good livestock".
So the argument goes, why let weeds grow in the garden of humanity?
But the implementation of those ideals is where eugenics becomes so horrible.
And of course, the big question is who gets to decide who are weeds and defective livestock?
Who gets to decide? The people with the most money and weapons. Always have any always will.
@@DegreesOfThree that's why the right people need to have money and weapons, but what you really mean is power in numbers
Rapists are weeds. Adrenoleukodystrophy is defective live stock.
It's really not that difficult.
The scientific basis is an incredibly flimsy one, and it couldn't justify eugenicist policies anyway. Because it's not just a scientific theory but a viewpoint of ethics and politics. As in, "how should we live together as a society?" Controlled breeding as a concept just isn't compatible with a humane way of living, even if we disregard the racism and authoritarianism.
@@NJP-Supremacist Numbers are important, but brainpower, unity, resources, and morale are probably more important.
Germans during WW2 also considered Slavic people, who are in most cases white, "lesser than dogs". The issue of eugenics is much deeper than skin colour.
Race is not skin color. "White" was a term used in America to distinguish European people from Africans and Native Americans. It was rarely brought up in Europe because slavery was not an important social issue there. The East Baltic people were disliked to such an extent more because of their involvement with Communism than race.
@@maryeverett2266 the Nazis did believe the Slavic were from a lesser group and non arians, leading them to be seen the same as jews and africans.
@@maryeverett2266and race is also made upp
@@SwedishDrunkard5963 You can literally observe the differences, both visually and genetically, between different races.
Race us made up. Ethnicity is what matters. Race in south Africa and Race in the US and Race in Australia are completely different things. @@maryeverett2266
Besides ethics, there are reasons that Eugenics doesn't even work in the first place. I'm always confused that videos like these never touch those topics. Not everybody is motivated by ethics alone, clearly.
One very strong reason - DNA is NOT a simple topic to understand. Environmental factors confound what is assumed to be DNA all the time. A lot of what remains is circumstantial. Assuming otherwise is factually incorrect and a waste of time and effort. If you need to think about ways to make a better humanity, look elsewhere.
@@ZennExile they work at selecting simple facial features.
Eugenics can definelty help if you're goal is to limit the number of non white people. Or people with blue eyes.
It won't however work for things like intelligence as the facts are far more complex.
@@ZennExile I wish I hadn't. (Ha).
Also, Russian Fox Experiment. At least there, the outcome was unplanned and unpredictable, reinforcing the point.
Right! And practical-rather than ethical-reasons are always so much more convincing. And if I ask questions regarding practicality, I always get met with vague and/or rude answers. I feel like using ethicality is sometimes a way to hide how little you know about a topic.
@@ZennExile mystery by no means ended. Your second word, "amateur", is correct. It'll take decades to unlock the secrets in genes. That said, very exciting, and definitely a more positive spin on the situation.
@@v7ran I might have to quote that. Great statement.
Good video. I wish that more information could have been given on British eugenics, and how much of its early proponents wanted to use policy to sterilize or reduce the birth rate of the impoverished. Eugenics has a long history of being used as a tool by the upper classes against the lower.
I studied politics of climate change for some time in college. It shocked me how many professors readily held to a kind of Neo-Malthusianism. They are obsessed with the impending climate disaster that they believe will result from population growth in the developing world. Nevermind that it is the developed world that is destroying the climate. 30 babies born in Nepal would be less devastating for the climate than one baby born in America -- 0.4 metric tons of CO2 emissions per capita in Nepal versus over 15 per capita in the US. Yet a growing sentiment among (Western) academics is that "something should be done" about birth rates in the developing world. Eugenics is alive and well in the 21st century
@@Gilamath. based af
@@Gilamath. they are partially right and you are partially right as well. Although developed world generates way more carbon emissions per capita, resources in the future are going to become scarce due to climate change, especially drinking water and fertile soil. It is also expected that climate change will cause mass displacement in the future which will mean wars and conflicts. That is why it is necessary to both control population overall as well as reduce carbon emissions by developed economies.
@@swaminim7058 if Western, developed nations would share their resources and change their lifestyles to match the rest of the world, the problem would be much less severe than if we simply cut birth rates in the developing world. America alone could theoretically produce enough to feed the whole world
The West is largely responsible for climate change, it is likely to be the least affected by climate change, and it has enough wealth and access to resources to to mitigate the effects of climate change. It just can’t do that while also indulging itself in its current excessive tendencies. All this applies to non-Western developed nations as well, of course, though to a slightly lesser degree
If there's fewer "lower class" people, that hurts the upper class and benefits the lower class.
Happy 10 years anniversary Ted ed. ❤️
You were my childhood
Thank you for sharing this. It hurts to hear about it but we need to learn about these atrocities.
Do you know what people at the time thought of those "atrocities"? They thought "good."
@@funkydiscogod That's the point 🤦.
@CarAudioMan16 Literally doesn't have anything to do with the video 🤦.
forced sterilization is still occurring in the US now at the border and to Indigenous communities. these women don’t have a choice and it is horrific.
Those are the only people that it gets reported on. Who knows what else happens here
and this can be counted as a genocide if it is prelific enugh
I am currently reading a fantastic book called "The Myth of Race" by Robert. W. Sussman. He talks in detail about the eugenics movement, how the Spanish Inquisition in 1492 was the manifesto of all this, and how historical figures who we see as good were actually supporters of this madness that has continued to this day. I highly recommend it.
@Daniel E. No, race is a false concept. The idea that humans evolved as separate entities in different continents has been proven wrong. What you're referring to, are the Haplogroups & types that are created within a group of people due to climatic and environmental factors. All humans can trace their mitochondrial DNA to a female that lived in East Africa around 200, 000 years ago.
so why is it certain medications don't work well for certain races?
@@Will9cThat's because certain gene pools among ethnic groups have different reactions to drugs. You have amalgamated genes with race. They are not the same thing.
@@richardtomlinson242 thank you, people really need to do more research on such complicated topics before spitting out statements they think are facts. If someone can’t discuss a topic using extensive vocabulary and cross checked data, they shouldn’t be telling others information they really know nothing about. Talking to you David because I seen your other comments…
@@kaitlinfrank9312 I know. A lot of people take any info that suits them as gospel.
I think as someone who is currently researching genetics and the use of gene editing to cure diseases like sickle cell disease this is terrible both for the people involved and current research as this history has become a stain on how we now look at the idea of genetics. I hope eventually we can prevent this from happening, but continue with the idea of gene editing treatment that can help hundred of millions of people effected by genetic diseases.
A feel you man, I sometimes found people that when its related to gene modifications, they would labeled it as "playing god". But I personally think that you guys are the future
@@mukrizhsmukmuk9252 If we can stick to just editing our genomes without killing or sterilizing people we'll be gucci, I am sure of it
Eugenics is an ideology like Communism.
It is not really something that can be applied to the real world populations.
@@bighands69 just like most other Ideologies. it isn't the concept that's bad, it's the way it was executed. just like religion, it is good. but over history, there are many instances where war was wedged simply for the sake of "liberating"
I could see people playing fast and loose if caution is thrown to the wind. That said, the most likely scenario for that happening as far as I can see is people discrediting caution by being excessively cautious.
We need to be very careful at treating only illnesses, and precisely so. Gene editing to avoid "behavioral disturbance" could easily become an excuse to make people more genetically prone to submissiveness.
It was specifically upheld by the Supreme Court in Buck v. Bell in 1927. An opinion by Justice Holmes. It was also cited approvingly in Roe v. Wade in 1973. The case remains “good law” to this day. That should have been mentioned in this video.
I’m amazed a recognizable name like Margaret Sanger was even mentioned.
Basically buck v. Bell is just roe v wade. Lmao who always commit abortion.
Hey, about Roe vs Wade...
Greetings from nova Scotia, I very much enjoy your videos, I always take away something from the many topics that you choose to cover, this one struck a little close to home.....My half brother is special, some might say he is a little bit different, when he was VERY young, it was decided that it was best if he was sterilized,....for society's safety. This wasn't 1910 or maybe the thirties, no this was 1972. Oh the GOOD OLD DAYS, my big toe. Thank you for your time and attention to this comment.
More topics like this should be covered. Keep up the good work
4:33 thank you for recognizing this
that's what I wanted to say too, but was surprised others didn't mention... what is happening to the Uighur isn't fair and should be stopped!
Thank you for mentioning 1924 Immigration Act. People seem to always forget how Southern Italians were treated.
Was they forced to immigrate?
And to think, they brought such great 'family' values.
@@XOPOIIIO no, definitely treated better than slaves were. Not great either. The issue is that people lately only address the Asian parts of these prior legislation. That would be inaccurate historically
@@NYmomAdrienne3915 It was mistake from the start to allow any non anglo-saxons to land in US. All conflicts today are rooted there.
@@XOPOIIIO I have no words for such idiocy
HAPPY 10 YEARS TED-ED 💗 you've fuelled my chase for knowledge for a big chunk of my life
tbh... same lol
Ah yes i still remember watching that pdf talk on ted 💋💋💋
Happy 10th Anniversary, TED ED.
*You Are The Best !!!*
I actually was looking up a video about this movement, because I wanted to know more about it (and the death and suffering that it caused) and now Ted-Ed just posted a video about it I am really happy and weirded out……..
Sorry had to break it….
It is still causing the death and suffering of many disabled preborn babies :(
We must always remember the horrors of the past, or we will doom ourselves into repeating them again.
but only the horrors of a small population of white people's past, we'll just make that the recorded history of everyone, and ignore all the other horrors.
@@ZennExile Bro, your victim mentality is showing.
@@desu38 your double digit IQ is leaking an odor tho.
@@ZennExile
I don’t get the punchline. The brain doesn’t emit odor. Just your hair.
Unless it’s a marijuana joke. Is it?
@@whathell6t I cannot begin to explain to you how much I love your comment or how absolutely buttnutt insane my imaginary mental image of you is. I kinda wish I could give you the greatest hug you have ever gotten, but then end that hug by smothering you for your own good...
I want to love my imaginary version of you to literal pieces.
Beautiful masterclass of scriptwriting and art direction (narration too!)
Really inspirational stuff :)
A lot of people in the comments saying that they never knew that things like the actual happened here the USA but yet people are up and armed about things like the Critical Race Theory and etc this is why its so important to tell the true history of what happened no matter how any of us feel about it. Things that happened in the past is for us to learn from for the future.
The Rwandan genocide has always left me bewildered. Learned helplessness and guided hysteria, led to the brutal slaughter.
It had literally nothing to do with Eugenics lol
It literally has nothing to do with eugenics. Also there were European colonial actors that were a part of the propaganda of the slaughter as well. Not an excuse for what happened but it wasn’t such an isolated event or influences.
@@afrinaut3094 Who were these actors?
@@jakovvodanovic9165 I guess I should say influencers to be more clear, but I believe it was the French. There was a bunch of court cases brought against them too, because of their involvement in stirring up some propaganda with the indigenous that was one of the aspects that led to the genocide. Divide & conquer style tactics, same stuff they used in different parts of Africa and against certain Native American confederacies. there was another European power that was involved but I honestly forgot.
@@afrinaut3094 it did if you think about it. The French literally took people from the same group and said "you guys look better and shall be the upper class. Rest of you, dont care". They measured noses and such and thats how the Hutus were divided from the Tutsis. They took the desirable traits and made them rulers. That definitely is eugenics
As always Ted-Ed, thank you for this beautifully made video. I don't think I'd ever would have known otherwise.
you know even less, and you're primed to retaliate against the actual truth now
@@NJP-Supremacist If you say so.
@@ghostderazgriz he's not wrong. This is propaganda and meant to push you toward a political conclusion. This false conflict loop is a well practiced media exercise that has it's roots in the very genesis of propaganda itself. The frame of reference is what they are shifting. It's a technique to keep the majority focused on an unsolvable conflict in order to diminish their perception of a real conflict. In this case, the frame is being moved from economic inequality to cultural inequality.
It's brilliant in that, a populous solution to cultural inequality can never truly exist without economic equality being clearly established, but as long as you are focused on cultural inequality that can never be achieved... It's smooth. Iceberg Slim would tip his big purple hat to modern politicians and their teams or propagandists.
The real truth is, Eugenics is just a fancy words for "selective breeding" and that's been a part of every human culture as far back as the fossil record oh human civilization goes. Royal bloodlines, Harems, Genghis and his war on tall people. None of this started with "white people in Europe". It can be argued that Europeans adopted the behavior from foreigners seeing as how much of dark age Europe was driven by religious conformity. It wasn't until slavery was introduced into Europe that the idea of selectively breeding humans caught on and that was directly because they viewed slaves as livestock.
They are trying to manipulate your view of current cultural conflict by confusing your sense of time and scale. And it works extremely well.
@@ZennExile Unless you have facts backed by evidence, like the professional researcher you so clearly are, you are wasting mine, yours, and everyone's time.
I think we can both agree it would be literally idiotic to just believe you because you said "the real truth is".
@@NJP-Supremacist that Is literrally what a brainwashed person would say.
Very informative in a very short space of time thank you for making and posting 👍🏻
Please post more I’m addicted to your channel😩😩
Goebbels himself was greatly inspired by the racial caste system practiced here in the U.S. and marveled at its efficiency. That soo many in this country continue to be shocked by this stuff just shows how little accurate history has been taught.
Thank you for sharing this story; wonderful animation and narration.
I first heard of this concept in school. Our teacher was kinda preaching to us about the goods of eugenics. Telling us how we should let our partner take tests first before marriage so as to know if there were any defective genes in their body. Implying that we should never marry people that might result to an offspring with genetic mutations.
I was already horrified by the idea back then but I never knew it was to this extent. This video enlightened me more about the concept.
jfc that's horrible. how old were you?? your teacher should be fired
Omg yikes
@@gaygengar Don't worry. I was already around 18 y/o. Old enough to realize something's not right lol
@@psalm8306 Report that teacher, that not ethical in any sense of the word, why not just remove the harmful gene entierly instead of preventing people from marrying who they love?
In my intro to biology class in college, my professor encouraged us and gave us resources to get tested for genetic issues to consider if we wanted biological kids. It was in correspondence with the genetics section so I didn't really think about how weird that was.
Reading your comment, I'm thinking back to the other genetics and physiology classes I took and I'm realizing nothing even similar happened.
the animation was really good especially in highlighting the various communities~thankyou
I am now addicted to ted ed, their narrations and animation!!!!! hats off for your hard work and lots of love💗💟
I have always wondered about the limit between eugenics and natural selection in humans.
It's not really natural selection if it isn't natural. Natural selection leads to taller populations as tall people have better luck find it partners. If a state was forcibly neutering short people to get the same result, it'd stop being natural selection.
technically everything a species does is naturally selection. nature doesnt have to be fair. but we dont need to follow nature on that one either.
when people choose partners based on subjective qualities I guess you can argue that itself is a form of eugenics. But that should be the extent of it. Its up to the individual and their preference, not the state or some other authority.
@@Baronnax thats literally artificial selection, you dont even know what natural selection is... lol.
natural selection is basically how long it takes for an isolated population that survived on nothing but pufferfish for example without getting poisoned
We talked about this in our history class at the uni. I had goosebumps the whole time from disgust
This video and others like are important to educate us so as not to confuse the coming age of genetic engineering and its myriad benefits with forced sterilization and other coercive state practices.
This is why psychology is such an important field as it focuses so much on the importance of cultural and linguistic influences all of us have on our cognitive functions.
genetics have influence on cognitive function too. What's your point?
Don't be hasty.@@garrysmodsketches
It is fascinating that you talk about this without context as though it is still not common for this to take place in other parts of the world, even without race like in Japan. This is about using science to control the direction and destiny of human civilization at the root. It goes even deeper than racism, even though racism is frequently how it is manifested. It is also done against people of the same race or of lower status or those just deemed undesirable.
Question: If bad traits can be bred out of animals why does it not work with us human animals.
Animal husbandry was my specialty.
Define 'bad traits' in humans.
@@thinkbetter5286 are you kidding me?
How about criminality to start with? Ever heard about child molesters? Bad genetics.
@@pigmanobvious Your making the assumption that people can't hold in their urges. Have you considered proper therapy?
This is where bioethics comes into play. Yes, there are bad traits that people want out. Yes, there are good traits that people want. However, there are complications to actualizing that. Who decides which traits are desirable and undesirable? What if those traits are connected to other traits? Who decides to edit their genes? Who will be able to edit their genes? Etc. We're also talking about humans here, not just dogs or fish. The consequences of even small mistakes can be catastrophic.
In broad strokes works!* Just not when bad traits are defined as being a certain race
or failing some arbitrary test.
*Assuming whoever incharge of it wouldn't abuse their power, equal opportunities are provided to all subjects and we don't overdo it the point of reducing genetic diversity
Eugenics will have a huge comeback if gene editing becomes mainstream
@@kingbubby1809 Whoever gives you the opportunity to give your children enhancements, is actively denying another that chance too. Human bias is a terminal disease.
its already here abortion clinics are 3/4 of the time in minority communities with huge amounts of public funding
Would be good! Imagine choosing the race of your child? I am an asian I would want white kid or a baby of a whole new race. Selecting colors of eyes and hair, skin color, tall or short that would be awesome.
@@constantineergius1626abortion is a choice mostly but that is still a bit disturbing that it is focused on areas with a large minority population and not equaly spread out
"Don't let me repeat myself"
-History
How did I never know this happened in the US in the 90s?! Nobody ever even mentioned it in school. This is awful.
Look at how politicians are fighting to keep racism education out of the classroom today. These wars against information have been going on for a long time, behind closed doors. Nobody mentioned it because school curricula were not given the freedom to include this content, as a practical matter. Not to mention that there are a number of people in power who look at eugenics and think that the old doctrine had some benefits. Let's not forget that the majority of people in Congress were alive back when there was no Civil Rights Act and eugenics-driven sterilization was still accepted practice
Democrats led the way for it
@@elsikpych Democrats of that day are the US Republican party of today.
@@pearlngozi2818 democrats support eugenics today dumdum
The video did a good job covering such an important and sad topic.
2:23 Unfortunately, this list includes India too. There were forced sterilization during Emergency Period (under Prime Minister Indra Gandhi).
No it was much different
Under Indra Gandhi it was population control measure
People where sterilized on grounds of having kids and not on being of certain caste colour or mental or health parameters
Though it was horrific in the way it was done, but it was logical and not Racists/Fascist rule
@@prathamsaxena9503 But I can't help but think why it only affected the poor? Well, is that not targeting a particular section? Like claiming they don't deserve the right to reproduce, exactly what the video talks about?
(Just a discussion, no confrontational argument intended.)
@@karangill6787 yes and no both
See the intent of govt was to reduce the population of India and on paper, people with one or more kid(s) were to be sterilized but
Due to mis management of government officials, it mostly affected poors and it also gave some incentive to poor people like basic healthcare (which many middle class and rich people could afford)
There was a reason behind it though.
They don't teach all of the horrors of humanity in school sadly. I never knew about this.
If much more atrocities would be taught, I cannot see that being good either. Nevertheless, there's many things that we are subjectively unaware of.
@@zyrith9475 how is that not a good thing. We shouldn't keep history away from people and burry people in ignorance. This is propoganda tactics are still something that can be used today becuase there are still people who do not know the truth. It is also the reason why deep seed racism and others evils of the wworld still exist today.
@@sabercat5490 The point I made is that it shouldn't be mandatory to learn everything that is bad, that would be excessive. I also considered overexposure to negativity as a reason, but I don't find that a valid argument. Nevertheless, my comment is just me expressing myself.
There are also other sources where you can get information, not just school. Propaganda you cannot prevent merely by educating, there will always be new things happening that not everyone is aware of and people can be deceived.
There are also a lot of measures taken to prevent racism, and the problems with racism and why it is a flawed concept have been discussed and are available information to the public, so you have to ask yourself: why does it still happen?
Education is important, but it won't solve everything.
@@zyrith9475 sounds to me that you don't like that CRT brother cuz makes your smooth moon brain hurt. Your fefes have nothing to do with kids being informed about the horrors that have happened in this country.If your feeble concerns were implemented then every child in America will continue to be ingorant till the cows come home.
@@cantgetitupanymore3244
Except that’s not CRT in the first place.
That’s absolutely a fact backed by mountain of evidences to the point it cannot be denied.
Thank you for making this video! I'm Swedish and unfortunately they don't even mention this in school.
The more we learn about history, the more we understand what kind of monster we are/were.
Still most of us are hoping for a peaceful world where we all can live in harmony.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
@@secondchance6603 A very quick Google will tell you that wasn't Hendrix. It wasn't a lyric of his, and he didn't speak in platitudes, he spoke plain English. The quote is from the 1800's.
@@2255223388 Cool, give yourself a pat on the back.
It's the duality of humankind- always pending between empathy and cruelty. We gotta make sure that Empathy is encouraged and is victorious for most.
Thanks for teaching me about my birth country Sweden. After some further digging into this, I learned that sterilisation was a condition for gender reassessment surgery until 2013 here. Feel like I've been living under a rock
I think it’s Disingenuous that they chose not to include information about the case of Buck versus Belle which legalized sterilization of women in the United States or at least it was a hallmark case on the subject and we didn’t say a word about it.
She was white, so it doesn't count. Only POCs matter in the woke religion.
@@strauss7151 you sound so childish
I don't understand how it's disingenuous if it wouldn't change the point. Because the people involved with Buck v Bell were all white?
thank you for making this video and even more for the brief illustration at the end mentioning the uyghurs who're facing many atrocities- sterilization being just one of them
Thank you! That was very informative.
P.S. Can you please choose a better world map projection?
I recall seeing this theme included in the brilliant The Knick show.
The darkness of humanity is frightening
100’s and 1,000’s of years of it to.
It’s only really coming to light and being more discovered through the progression of social media and the internet.
Seeing the state of the world today, some aspects of Eugenics would be extremely beneficial for the betterment of Humanity!
Eugenics was the only way we evolved from primitive beings to rational, intelligent humans
yeah sure man
@@jameseldridge3445 ...no? And calling yourself intelligent and humans from the past "primitive" just shows how self centered you are.
Proud to say I learned this in school. In Texas too if you’d believe it.
We as a world, need to be kinder and gentler than ever before!
This is nothing but scary to me. I cannot even imagine what that would be like to be in this position. Every day I want to believe in humanity , such things from past appears and it hits me deeply straight in my heart.
Is there any place on this planet that has not been cruel to its people/ to other people?
No, not really. "Faith in humanity" is a very silly, childish thing.
@@Tokuijin but then why we still continue as humanity?
why still believe humanity? why?
A very serious and high quality video and touchy subject and all i can think about is why is Francis Galton's head so small 1:12
It'd be good to note that Charles Darwin, who is Francis Galtons' cousin, basically told him that his Eugenics theories were absolute nonsense.
@@ZennExile None of that makes any sense.
@@jakuburban6289 Cope
@@resikin great arguement, I'm 100% convinced by this
I appreciate bringing attention to this part of our history. I'm surprised they didn't mention Puerto Rico though.
4:35, thank you to Ted Ed for not shying away from this topic
"involuntary sterilization" ..overwhelmed with outrage and heartache right now😡😥💔
Just learned about this in biology… nice video
In Canada we have a program called MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying). Basically, it's at way for a terminally ill person to end their life via medically sanctioned euthanasia. However, the program was recently expanded to include those who are mentally ill. This has raised a lot of ethical questions and is straying the line between medical ethics and eugenics.
IQ tests have a dark history. While they can test some basic problem solving skills, they are exceptionally poor indicators of intelligence (a concept with multiple definitions) or creativity. Some people are just bad at tests in general, but that doesn't mean they can't create or learn new things.
They usually are good indicatores of intelligence, just because in somes cases that doesnt aply doesnt mean they are bad indicatores. I know intelligence is way more than that but iq plays a big role
@@fitfluencee idk man but giving tests to immigrants that never head English as their first language and presumably never had exams in their country was bound to cause inaccurate and misleading results
@@comradekenobi6908yep thats true, but i think people say iq tests arent effective a lot of times to excuse their stupidity
My teacher told us that there are two types of eugenics
Positive This one promotes selected matings while not thinking about 'undesirable' individuals
While the negative one focuses on eradication of those individuals
Ted-Ed is doing a great job of bringing forth the unexplored, unnoticed and intentionally ignored events of great significance in history. Way to go Ted-Ed, keep it up!
i never heard of this?? thank you ted ed
The sad irony is that one of the most important things for a child’s development is to be wanted and loved by their guardians. You can see from the legal action they took that at least a good number of these women who were denied the right to have children were passionate about becoming mothers, and for that reason they probably would have been better parents than the dispassionate, obligated white women who were deemed ‘fit to breed’ despite not really wanting to have children. They distorted a whole generation of children by skewing reproduction towards those who felt obligated by society instead of those who actually wanted children. And just to add insult to injury, when those white women did want to be sterilized, they were routinely denied the procedure.
Those from non-Western societies likely grew up in a troublesome environment, meaning they would've created the same environment for their children. Wanting to have children doesn't mean they will be good parents. The psychology shows otherwise.
The world's tragedies and inherent horrors never cease to amaze me.
Disappointed that Australia’s history isn’t mentioned in this video.
Thank you so much for sharing this educational video which was well narrated. I didn't know about this. Definitely learnt something new today. Thank you again and God bless you.
I wish I was surprised by this, but as a member of a race still openly held under Eugenics policies in the United States, I am not. Blood Quantum for Indigenous Americans was created by Eugenics-trained scientists, and it's still how we are forced to determine if we are eligible to be a tribal member in most Tribes. Some Tribes are moving to lineal descent, which is better, but many tribes can't or won't. It's not commonly known, but it extremely relevant to the topic of this video, and it feels bad that it was overlooked.
I was just thinking about eugrnics, and here pops up this videos a few hours later.
Imagine... The amount of money and time goes into upholding prejudices....💔
Edit: i am not talking about TED Ed. The doctors who performed surgeries didn't do it for free i suppose 😅
It's a billion dollar industry.
People make entire careers on hate.
Ted-Ed has 16 million subscribers.
16 Million.
@@funkydiscogod
16 million people thinking eugenics is inherently bad that also love Planned Parenthood (which was started by a eugenicist mentioned in this very video) and vote along party lines as a rule rather than looking at policy.
16 million... is enough to cause real damage.
Good thing you added that edit, cause I misread that as "uploading"
@@VariantAEC like yourself????
@@lll25149 Supporting PP is not wanting abortions or an abortion fetish lmaoo you and your pro-birth community
It's shocking how even though most people realize that 'eugenics bad' we still get a lot of people who preach and advocate for practices and ideologies that can be connected right back to these types of horrible actions with the thinnest of thread.
Why is eugenics bad?
@@maryeverett2266 Ahhhh Troll
@@maryeverett2266 Also why do you post about ballet? And dance? Very strange of you.
@@EvTheBadConlanger The dancers I post have the most genetically pure bodies and their movements are of great class. But better question, why did you look into my channel?
@@maryeverett2266 Curiosity
I’ve always wondered what inspired the use of wooden doors??
I was actually looking into this before this video was posted.
America may have a lot of freedom, but dark spots like this show its imperfections. Best thing to do is remember what happened and keep trying to get better going forward
Americans also dont have freedom 😂 they rank lower then most western countries in freedom
@@rafaelagoncalves8825America is still better than authoritarian countries. You are allowed to hold beliefs that the government doesn't approve of without worrying about being murdered by government agents.
People are at the end of the day allowed to believe what they want and keep living their lives
@@noahjohnson935 yeah ig if you compare it to the worst of the worst countries it does contrast better, good point lmao 🙄
@@rafaelagoncalves8825 I agree, America isn't great. Not everyone enjoys the same amount of freedom they should, and our politics and media is broken nearly to beyond repair. I've been to areas that resemble the third world in the US.
Americans are working to make it better though. Not all of us are content with the status quo
@@noahjohnson935 exactly, that was my exact point, glad we could come to an agreement.Also very happy to see there are Americans that are aware of these flaws and want or are actively trying to change them. 👏
Thanks for sharing the "dark side" of humanity, this has been and historical and ongoing problem worldwide that could be summarized in one word: racism. Astonishing how the "developed" countries have supported and allowed the violation of human rights.
Thank you for making this video
John Harvey Kellogg played a big role too with his Race Betterment Foundation.
It is kinda crazy what people will do when they have a lot of systematic power and control. Makes that social contract business a bit useless....
I am not surprised of Japan practicing eugenics at all.
It is truly an inspiration to this very day.
so thankful for this kind of videos