"The British Eugenics movement peaked in 1902, following the revelation that over half of all volunteers for the Boer War had to be rejected by the army due to ill health…However, though widely publicised, eugenic theories were…mostly rejected by mainstream medical thought.
It is important to remember that eugenic theories were not widely accepted. The 1904 Committee on Physical Deterioration refuted the idea of ‘Racial degeneration’…Whilst Francis Galton’s books recieved many sceptical reviews"
P.218, “The Blackest Streets: life and death of a Victorian Slum” by Sara Wise
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“the drust are so evil!! they defended themselves when we invaded their lands!! we only wanted to take their land PEACEFULLY!! also we swear their king was an evil witchking, that’s why we wiped out their entire darn race and assimilated the ones we didn’t kill”