That's horrible! I thought it just said African girl at first which is upsetting enough. Then I saw that it was North Carolina...

I'm sure glad it's not 1967 anymore. People like to pretend things were so much better in the past.

How was she dressed at the time of the rape, hmmm?

State Representative Larry Womble has been advocating for the survivors of the state's sterilization program for nearly 10 years. He helped fight for the repeal of the state's law.

Give this guy a medal. Larry Womble: you are a cool dude. Thank you for doing the right thing.

Peter von Nostrand: BroVinny: How was she dressed at the time of the rape, hmmm?

-3/10

stfu and go back to trolling school

Must've hit a nerve. I didn't know any of the sterilization victims were on Fark until now.

Peter von Nostrand: BroVinny: How was she dressed at the time of the rape, hmmm?

-3/10

stfu and go back to trolling school

negative score...I'd say that the troll was successful. 10/10

Did anyone else notice that Governor Perdue looks like Carol Brady?

That's a sad story. It almost makes me question my support for the concept of forced sterilization.

People are getting farked up in this thread

sheilanagig: log_jammin: sheilanagig: I already don't buy Bayer products because of the concentration camp they used to run. Now I'm going to have to stop buying P&G products on ethical grounds.

That's totally logical and not dumb at all.

If you knew what P&G were allowed to put in your shampoo, you'd probably join me. Bayer is the only pharma company in existence, to my knowledge, to have run a concentration camp with the cooperation of the Nazi regime. They conducted human vivisection experiments. I think that's morally repugnant. That's a perfectly logical reason to not do business with them.

although I love your Irish pu-nany carvings, I have to say the people responsible for that are probably long dead, and if not that retired and not running the company. So it's not a logical reason not to do business with them. Next you won't buy Mitsubishi or Mercedes products because they made part for the Axis war machine. Then you won't buy Hugo Boss because of the whole Nazi uniform thing, and that leads to you not paying taxes to the US government since the US government employed people that designed Nazi terror weapons like the V2 rocket to shoot out astronauts to the Moon.

I'd make fun, but my province used to sterilize handicap people.
Shoulda been the law makers that got the treatment, what morons.

Bathia_Mapes: Sadly, Oregon was forcibly sterilizing people until 1981, all in the name of eugenics,

Mentally handicapped people were sterilized, but also epileptics, the mentally ill, homosexuals, habitual criminals. Those who were sterilized were often inmates of state hospitals/institutions & prisons. Homosexual men were castrated.

I'm not comfortable with making judgements about decisions made in 1967 for people that at that time were deemed mentally ill. Hindsight is always keener.

BTW, Bathia_Mapes, I'm completely not speaking to you. Just using your post. I've always appreciated your well balanced postings.

But folks today need to temper their opinions on what they think about previous decisions based on the current social opinions of those days.

And no, I'm not condoning, just trying to understand our history. For example, until the 1860's slavery was a socially acceptable practice. Nobody today would in public accept that as a socially acceptable practice.

Don't judge the ones living in it, judge them if they can't change.

And the hooooome of theeeeeee braaaaaaaaave

Skyrmion: That's a sad story. It almost makes me question my support for the concept of forced sterilization.

So if I laughed does that mean I'm going to hell?

better living through science

i know someone who was on iowa's eugenics board which also sterilized people until the 1970s. i try not to look at him funny because of that but it's hard. it's hard,man. and not the same kind of hard i get when I look at your mom

bobbette: State Representative Larry Womble has been advocating for the survivors of the state's sterilization program for nearly 10 years. He helped fight for the repeal of the state's law.

Give this guy a medal. Larry Womble: you are a cool dude. Thank you for doing the right thing.

Well it's in his nature to make good use of the things everyday folks leave behind.

Forced sterilization should only happen after a person is given the chance for two offspring. After that you are just adding to the problem.

Skyrmion: That's a sad story. It almost makes me question my support for the concept of forced sterilization.

Let's not be too hasty.

As an avid breeder myself (of the unmarried variety, natch!) I'm getting a kick out of looking out my window every five minutes to see if you're coming to trim m' vas.

serial_crusher: Bathia_Mapes: Sadly, Oregon was forcibly sterilizing people until 1981, all in the name of eugenics,

Mentally handicapped people were sterilized, but also epileptics, the mentally ill, homosexuals, habitual criminals. Those who were sterilized were often inmates of state hospitals/institutions & prisons. Homosexual men were castrated.

What good does that do?

You never know when a homosexual will get drunk in a dark, crowded room and accidentally a vagina.

CasperImproved: For example, until the 1860's slavery was a socially acceptable practice. Nobody today would in public accept that as a socially acceptable practice.

In public, no. ThEre is A grouP ARound That You wouldn't be surprised of saying so in private.

To play devil's advocate, the underlying idea of Eugenics - eliminating negative characteristics and promoting desirable ones through selective breeding - is a valid one that truly could benefit the human race. It's just the implementation that's morally abhorrent. Make it voluntary (possibly via a financial incentive), and is much more acceptable.

pedobearapproved: Skyrmion: That's a sad story. It almost makes me question my support for the concept of forced sterilization.

So if I laughed does that mean I'm going to hell?

And I went and kept my "What's wrong with sterilizing retards?" comment to myself. . .

clyph: CasperImproved: For example, until the 1860's slavery was a socially acceptable practice. Nobody today would in public accept that as a socially acceptable practice.

In public, no. ThEre is A grouP ARound That You wouldn't be surprised of saying so in private.

To play devil's advocate, the underlying idea of Eugenics - eliminating negative characteristics and promoting desirable ones through selective breeding - is a valid one that truly could benefit the human race. It's just the implementation that's morally abhorrent. Make it voluntary (possibly via a financial incentive), and is much more acceptable.

Oh aye. Couldn't be any of this nature vs nurture crap involved though. But sterilize retards? Why the fark not sterilize retards? I'm not trolling, just expressing what I think is a legitimate concern.