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by wchar_t 2221 days ago
Not to mention how "imbeciles", African Americans, and other "misfits" were forcibly sterilized in the years after 1900.
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It's ongoing, and the US has had cases brought against it as recently as 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#U.S._.... While the more recent cases are less overtly abject evil, they aren't the activities of what I'd call a free or even humane nation that has any right whatsoever to claim that the spread of its governance is an ethical good.