The autistic side of me is struggling not to nitpick the meme, because the forced sterilizations were incredibly shameful and wrong but the meme has some minor errors
Wrong_Guarantee1888 on
Also, post WW2 Europe, especially Eastern and Central Eastern Europe, expelled and massacred historical German minorities, and also coerced groups like the romani(gypsies) into sterilization.
homo-penis-erectus on
Comes to thread for explanation but there is none.
EDIT: The two pages linked by respondees say nothing about racial eugenics or racial purity. They do show that a sterilization program happened but race isn’t discussed on either page.
SideaLannister on
And is there a connection between these statements?
Dominarion on
Don’t single out Sweden, they all did it.
Trotsky_Enjoyer on
Yes. The Swedish ruling class founded the racial-biological institute to scientifically prove scandinavian superiority, it was especially to establish superiority over the colonized Sami people of northern scandinavia and their status as “sub-human” was used by capitalists to steal their land and exploit its natural resources while the state shattered the Sami cultural heritage.
WestRestaurant216 on
And now they went all in at becoming non Swedish, gg.
Karelia606 on
Don’t tell op why Iceland barely has any people with Down’s syndrome.
(yes, I know it’s not the same)
high_king_noctis on
You will not find a single country that hasn’t done some horrific shit in the past century
DissKoalaFied on
Eugenics was an infamously acceptable method in all western countries at the time. Hitler’s belief in an industrial scale genocide was actually inspired by the USA policy of compulsory sterilization, which started at 1907(!).
Electronic_Reward333 on
wait, did it work?
BoyPregggers on
Sounds like it worked??????????
DoubleOne5665 on
Edit: So apparently sterilization was pretty common in Europe, but I certainly wasn’t expecting it from Sweden. Well the more you know, I suppose.
OrcaFlux on
Wait until you find out how the world, via Sweden, discovered that sugar rots your teeth and what can be done about it.
NefariousnessOnly149 on
Until 2013, sterilisation was mandatory before gender reassignment surgery.
Spartan-teddy-2476 on
Didn’t pretty much every single western nation do the same thing during pretty much the exact same time frame?
Vetharest on
Apologies, OP, the thread right above this had people unironically arguing that racial purity was a prerequisite for high average wealth and social equality, and so I read the post like that. Fortunately you are sentient and do not believe this.
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Yes.
The autistic side of me is struggling not to nitpick the meme, because the forced sterilizations were incredibly shameful and wrong but the meme has some minor errors
Also, post WW2 Europe, especially Eastern and Central Eastern Europe, expelled and massacred historical German minorities, and also coerced groups like the romani(gypsies) into sterilization.
Comes to thread for explanation but there is none.
EDIT: The two pages linked by respondees say nothing about racial eugenics or racial purity. They do show that a sterilization program happened but race isn’t discussed on either page.
And is there a connection between these statements?
Don’t single out Sweden, they all did it.
Yes. The Swedish ruling class founded the racial-biological institute to scientifically prove scandinavian superiority, it was especially to establish superiority over the colonized Sami people of northern scandinavia and their status as “sub-human” was used by capitalists to steal their land and exploit its natural resources while the state shattered the Sami cultural heritage.
And now they went all in at becoming non Swedish, gg.
Don’t tell op why Iceland barely has any people with Down’s syndrome.
(yes, I know it’s not the same)
You will not find a single country that hasn’t done some horrific shit in the past century
Eugenics was an infamously acceptable method in all western countries at the time. Hitler’s belief in an industrial scale genocide was actually inspired by the USA policy of compulsory sterilization, which started at 1907(!).
wait, did it work?
Sounds like it worked??????????
Edit: So apparently sterilization was pretty common in Europe, but I certainly wasn’t expecting it from Sweden. Well the more you know, I suppose.
Wait until you find out how the world, via Sweden, discovered that sugar rots your teeth and what can be done about it.
Until 2013, sterilisation was mandatory before gender reassignment surgery.
Didn’t pretty much every single western nation do the same thing during pretty much the exact same time frame?
Apologies, OP, the thread right above this had people unironically arguing that racial purity was a prerequisite for high average wealth and social equality, and so I read the post like that. Fortunately you are sentient and do not believe this.