This is another problem with American history. You get one fancy guy with issues and then a whole generation suffers.

It may come as a surprise, but a sterilization policy known as eugenics existed in this country for years.

Entire categories of people were considered unfit for reproduction, including immigrants, people of color and people with disabilities.

It's also important to remember that this is not some long ago history. This program lasted until the 70s, at least.

What will make my family feel better is that we continue to help with the fight. My mother's gone, but she still lives through us.

And we will continue to fight this to see that justice is done not only for our family, but for all of the families, all seven over seven thousand or more.

Welcome to Your Wrong About. I'm Sarah Marshall. Today we are welcoming back fan favorite returning champion. I don't know how you wanted this show, but he did.

Eric Michael Garcia to talk about eugenics. Sometimes or maybe a lot of the time we do episodes whose full title could more reasonably be.

You might want to think more about rather than Your Wrong About. I specifically brought Eric on because I wanted to test out a theory. I have that eugenics is just below the surface as long standing in American tradition as apple pie.

We recorded this episode earlier this year before Robi Wade was overturned. And I think you can probably hear in this conversation that we are watching something brewing with regards to bodily autonomy in America.

But that the explosion has perhaps not yet occurred.

If you want to hear more from Eric on Your Wrong About. He did an episode with us not long ago on the vaccines cause autism myth. And he also did a bonus episode a few months ago talking about see his music, the movie music.

And it was a very educational conversation about a I would argue non educational movie. And you can get that episode on patreon or via apple plus subscriptions or you can spend your money on a snow cone like I did this week.

Also we just had an announcement about this but it's worth mentioning again Your Wrong About is having a teeny tiny tour we are coming to Portland Seattle Los Angeles and San Francisco in mid September. There's a link to to her information in the show description.

And I am so excited about it and if you're excited about that and you can come you should get a ticket if you want to I would advise moving quickly because those have been selling shockingly fast.

All right I hope I got to see you soon here's our episode.

Welcome to Your Wrong About the show where we discuss America's past time and it isn't baseball.

I love that I love that. Thank you. Who are you and what are we talking about?

My name is Eric Garcia. I am the senior Washington correspondent at the independent I'm a call miss and miss MEC and I am Your Wrong About the resident disability correspondent.

You are I'm going to make you a plaque I feel like you need a plaque for this so today we are talking about eugenics and it seems like this should be a hard turn into this topic but I feel like we've already been prefacing this by talking about the pandemic because I feel like one of the themes that we have been discussing this entire time is you know what if you don't have comorbidities we'll be okay.

Yeah I mean that was really what got a lot of people upset at the CDC director of shell o'olensky in January when she said that like the people who are dying who are vaccinated already were people with form or comorbidities anyway and so really these were people who were on well to begin with.

It was basically saying fuck the disabled because a lot of people with disabilities and chronically people have those comorbidities and it made them feel like they were being disregarded and it made them feel like they were being devalued by their government and I feel like and you see it also with cutting down quarantine times because we need to have people come back to work even when there's outbreaks and then there's this urgency to keep the economy going.

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