Review – The Eugenics Crusade

Anyone who thinks Hitler and his cronies invented this shit seriously needs to watch this documentary. It’s a chilling portrait of the rise and fall of the eugenics movement in the United States. Nor does it let us get away with the comforting lie that we learned our lesson in the wake of Nazi atrocities in Germany. Forced sterilization laws remain on the books in many states, and rhetoric about immigrants corrupting the gene pool have obvious parallels in current right wing rhetoric. Worth seeing