Eugenics is the idea that only the best seeds should be grown, while all others, including the feeble-minded, undesirable, useless eaters, and weeds, should be sterilized or exterminated. The practicality refutes the idealism of such an ideology when the question of who decides upon these determinations is presented. But perhaps, as the first head of the Population Council, Frederick Osborn, who was also a leader of the American Eugenics Society, wrote, “Eugenic goals are most likely to be achieved under another name than eugenics.” The reality of this can be seen in Disability Pride month and how people without disabilities are creating disabilities to become undesirable and thus classified as a weed in order to claim some kind of social virtue.

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