Eugenics
Disability hate crime and three wishes for our Paralympic legacy
Compare and contrast the cheering crowds that lauded our Paralympian medal winners with the focus group research, carried out recently by the Glasgow Media Group, that found that a representative sample of the British population believes that between half and three-quarters of all disability benefit claimants are scroungers.
By Katharine Quarmby | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 12 September 2012 at 3:00 pm
Holocaust Eugenics coverage shouldn’t exclude disabled people
Last night as part of the BBC’s fantastic Olympic coverage a short documentary was shown on nature versus nurture and the triumph of black athletes in the face of racism and oppression, but why was the appalling treatment of disabled during the Holocaust omitted?
By Nicky Clark | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 10 August 2012 at 2:35 pm
Why does LSE academic Satoshi Kanazawa seem to hate women and black people?
“The Hawaiian sailors are all black and ugly like devils.” This was an entry in the diary of Morita Kiyoyuki, one of the 170 samurai envoys who travelled from Japan as part of the first Japanese embassy mission to America in 1860 during the late Tokugawa Shogunate. The envoys meticulously recorded their views on what they saw during their journey in embassy dispatches, diaries, memoirs, and travelogues.
By Michael Mumisa | Notebook | Friday, 20 May 2011 at 12:00 pm
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