California to pay victims of forced, coerced sterilizations

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California is poised to approve reparations of up to $25,000 to some of the thousands of people, who were sterilized decades ago because the government deemed them unfit to have children.

The payments will make California at least the third state ( following North Carolina and Virginia) to compensate victims of the eugenics movement that peaked in the 1930s.
Supporters of the movement believed sterilizing people with physical disabilities, mental illnesses and other traits they deemed undesirable would improve the human race.

While California sterilized more than 20,000 people before its law was repealed in 1979, only a few hundred are still alive. 
The state has set aside $7.5 million for the reparations program.

California will also pay women the state coerced to get sterilized while they were in prison, some as recently as 2010.

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Umm...does the Geneva Convention only apply to war crimes? They sterilized women as recently as 2010...not only do those women deserve compensation, the people who oversaw that belong in prison.

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Just now, PartySick said:

Umm...does the Geneva Convention only apply to war crimes? They sterilized women as recently as 2010...not only do those women deserve compensation, the people who oversaw that belong in prison.

They only apply to actions during armed conflict, yes

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the US is half democracy/freedom half totalitarian

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1 hour ago, bionic said:

They only apply to actions during armed conflict, yes

Damn

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Only $25,000 for being forced sterilized?

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One of the major proponents of the forced sterilization of the mentally ill/deficient, Mexicans, and African Americans in California, Paul Popenoe, was quoted as saying: "An elementary knowledge of the history of Africa, or the more recent and much-quoted example of Haiti, is sufficient to prove that the Negro's own social heritage is at a level far below that of the whites among whom he is living in the United States.... The Negro race is germinally lacking in the higher developments of intelligence."

It's not surprising at all that the practice of forced sterilization like this have roots in white supremacist views.