Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
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Yeah, they definitely were. And in 1917, it was the time of World War I, and a guy by the name of Robert Yerkes came up with the Army Alpha and the Army Beta test to determine which Army recruits were better suited for leadership roles and or other specific positions.
The Army Alpha was a written test, and the Army Beta was made up of pictures in order to include soldiers who didn't read or didn't speak English. Over a million soldiers ended up taking these tests.
That's interesting. I don't even think you need to be a U.S. citizen to join the U.S. Army, to be honest with you. Yeah, there was something.
Right. Absolutely. And they use this data to screen for officers, sometimes not even considering someone who scored below a certain grade. Fortunately, this sort of data ended up being used in all kinds of nefarious ways, as I'm sure you can imagine. Remember, eugenics was having a moment around the time of these tests.
Was. I wish eugenics was a was. Sadly, it's still creeping around out there.
But unfortunately, eugenics is not merely a dick pill, as eugenics was just basically racism in a lab coat. Eugenics was the notion that certain traits like intelligence, physical prowess and even moral character were inherited. And society would benefit by promoting the breeding of some people and in America, the forced sterilization of others.
And by the way, that is the plot of Idiocracy, more or less, or more to the point that super smart people have fewer children, which is true. And see Idiocracy. It's turns out it was more of a prophetic vision of America's future than just a comedy from the.
Yeah, no kidding. But you're right. It is super dangerous stuff. And in the U.S., many of these ideas took their darkest forms around that time, the 30s and the 40s. There was a eugenics program implemented in North Carolina that started in 1933 and went on for over four decades.
Over 7000 people are estimated to have been sterilized on account of this program, which singled out people with low IQ or as they called them, feeble minded.
I'm pretty sure the traffic in Los Angeles would certainly get a lot better. Yeah. No more Carmageddon. Some might argue that Michael Regilio would be taken off the roads. But anyway. Several states enacted similar programs, not just North Carolina. In fact, California. I'm sitting right now. In fact, it was another principal state that was enacting this kind of stuff.
And this whole movement, these programs inspired none other than one Mr. Adolf Hitler. And his view.
In fact, all over Mein Kampf, there are references to American eugenics and the praise for what was going on in this country with sterilization of the feeble minded. Yikes.
Oh, it did. In fact, the Supreme Court of the United States in Buck versus Bell 1927 full on supported the practice of sterilization of people they deemed to be feeble minded. Justice Holmes delivering the opinion of the court wrote, quote,
It is better for all the world if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. Oof. He later added, three generations of imbeciles are enough. Wow. What's the three generations of imbeciles? That was the family that their case made it up to the Supreme Court.
I can't remember who's the bucks or the bells, but.
Wow.
Way to take a swing at mom and pop and grandma and grandpa at the same time, by the way.
And I've already hinted at this, but guess who ended up quoting Justice Holmes while on trial for crimes against humanity?
Oh, the Nazis got a lot of ideas from America. And in fact, I'll do you one better than just quoting us. Or perhaps one worse than just quoting Americans, Adolf Hitler famously hung a portrait of Henry Ford in his office. Really? Yeah. It's just a fact. Racism and eugenics was very popular in the US. Okay.
So there was this whole idea at the time that some people were born inferior, feeble-minded, and it was best to sterilize them or otherwise remove them from your population in order to create a better society. And they used none other than these IQ tests to justify these ideas.
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