Eugenics: once loved by British intellectual lefties
(NEWSER) - Liberals, it's time to confront the biggest skeleton in your political closet: eugenics. Or so argues Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian . Back in the 1930s and 40s, major figures like George Bernard Shaw and John Maynard Keynes supported eugenics, the notion that disabled and poor people should be prevented from reproducing. "What was missing was any value placed on individual freedom, even the most basic freedom of a human being to have a child," writes Freedland. More»
