"Georgia's forced sterilization of over 4,000 people from…" — Aaron Gerald Guest Sr. (#c413)

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Georgia's forced sterilization of over 4,000 people from 1939 to 1965 rested on eugenic ideology serving as an "objective" scientific justification for white supremacy and racial hierarchy — and the state's public schools were an active transmission belt, teaching eugenics to the populace.

— In our words · Source: Ethics, Eugenics, and Public Education in Georgia (1910-1965) (Aaron Gerald Guest Sr.)

[Use when]

When science becomes the alibi for state power, follow the teaching — the classroom is where a contested idea becomes the next generation's common sense.

[Why it matters]

A case study in how a scientific consensus captures institutions — policy, courts, and classrooms moved together on the same "objective" premise.