Wednesday, August 22, 2012
War on the Weak:
Eugenics in America
This
documentary depicts the U.S. Eugenic legislation throughout the early 20th
Century and chronicles the compulsory sterilization faced by many Americans.
"War on the Weak" continues to analyze negative eugenics by
discussing the U.S. Supreme Court case of Buck v. Bell. Furthermore, the
parallels present among U.S. and Nazi ideologies on the nature of eugenics are
presented, along with an exposition on the affinity Nazi scientists had for
U.S. eugenics laws. The documentary concludes with a look at modern genetic
research and leaves the viewer with the hopeful message of a society free of
ailments but warns of the dangers on science that is not kept in check with the
moral values of humanity. >click to watch<
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