Eugenics Popular on Campuses in USA

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"As often happens when a big idea seizes the imagination of the intelligentsia, their strongest argument is that there is no argument -- that "science" has already proved what they believe.
As Sir Francis Galton put it: "there exists a sentiment, for the most part quite unreasonable, against the gradual extinction of an inferior race."
The idea that those with different views had only "sentiment" on their side, while he had science, was common among intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic.
Eugenics -- a term Galton coined -- became a crusading creed, and eugenics societies were set up by such stellar intellectuals as John Maynard Keynes, H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw in England. In the United States there were 376 college courses devoted to eugenics in American colleges and universities in 1928.
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In our supposedly more enlightened time, it became dangerous even to express differing views on the subject on leading college and university campuses."


http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/01/19/an_ignored_disparity_part_iii

An Ignored 'Disparity': Part III
TownHall.com
January 19, 2012