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One of our episodes this week was on Ellen Sweller Richards and as I said at the end of the episode,

I wish there had not been so much eugenics in there.

And there's just like I just I have a hard time sometimes articulating just how mainstream those

ideas were like there were textbooks, your regular high school textbook that just laid out eugenics

as though it was accepted fact and like a lot of the same groups that the movement targeted

as inferior also adopted those same ideas for their own improvement like the no group is a monolith.

There were of course people in every group that were like this is maybe not the best plan.

But it was just everywhere and so there are so many people that you will research especially

at the end of the 19th and early 20th century and you'd be like this person was really cool.

Oh no eugenics and so much about euthenics was also like all about preserving clean water and

clean air and having adequate ventilation and indoor spaces which sure has revealed itself to be

incredibly important over the last years of pandemic. But then also like there's just a thread of

and we're gonna improve the race with this and I was like what if what if we didn't.

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