美国曾经提出了一个绝育计划并付诸行动,很多南方的红脖子白人被当作退化家族对待。从1938年到1968年30年期间,大约有6.8万被强行绝育,而这项法律直到1974年才被提出废止,真正实行废止其实是在1977年,将近40年时间。
这就是所谓的“凯勒奇计划”,所以具体受害者有多少,根本无法统计。而当年受到绝育迫害的受害者,如今还有大概3000人左右。黑人就算再惨,可他们仍有生育权利,而红脖子直接被变成了公公,这简直是要灭族啊!
当年被实施种族灭绝计划的美国红脖子白人,他们男女阉割的待遇,很难想象是发生在美国这样的自由、民主的超级大国。
In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court decided, by a vote of 8 to 1, to uphold a state's right to forcibly sterilize a person considered unfit to procreate. The case, known as Buck v. Bell, centered on a young woman named Carrie Buck, whom the state of Virginia had deemed to be "feebleminded."
Author Adam Cohen tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that Buck v. Bell was considered a victory for America's eugenics movement, an early 20th century school of thought that emphasized biological determinism and actively sought to "breed out" traits that were considered undesirable.
"There were all kinds of categories of people who were deemed to be unfit [to procreate]," Cohen says. "The eugenicists looked at evolution and survival of the fittest, as Darwin was describing it, and they believed 'We can help nature along, if we just plan who reproduces and who doesn't reproduce.' "
All told, as many as 70,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized during the 20th century. The victims of state-mandated sterilization included people like Buck who had been labeled "mentally deficient," as well as those who who were deaf, blind and diseased. Minorities, poor people and "promiscuous" women were often targeted.