{"id":210231,"date":"2019-09-10T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=210231"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:41:40","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-eugenics-minorities-anybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/whoopi-goldberg-eugenics-minorities-anybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg’s clueless claim: ‘Eugenics doesn’t have anything to do with minorities or anybody else’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week on The View, host Whoopi Goldberg made claims<\/a> about eugenics that don\u2019t line up with history. <\/span><\/p>\n

Goldberg took issue with conservative commentator S.E. Cupp’s tweet<\/a> claiming that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders\u2019 comments<\/a> promoting population control to reduce climate change were really eugenics in disguise. Sanders’ remarks didn’t qualify under the category of eugenics,\u00a0<\/span>said<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Goldberg. But in attempting to defend Sanders, she made an error of her own. She defined eugenics as, \u201cthe science of selective and controlled breeding in an effort to increase characteristics and traits deemed desirable.\u201d She then went on, \u201cLet\u2019s not make something up when it\u2019s not what he said, because when you bring in eugenics, that\u2019s a different conversation. That is the controlling of a population because you don\u2019t like the size of your nose or they\u2019re too dark\u2026 Eugenics doesn\u2019t have anything to do with minorities or anybody else<\/em>\u2026.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, these persons are precisely<\/em> whom the philosophy of eugenics has affected and was used against throughout the majority of history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n