Mott, the topic was not about abortion, I was attempting to give validity to the racist agenda of eugenics here in America that you said: " I don't think U.S. eugenics at institutions were based on racism." Abortion is a product of Eugenics including the many mental institutions that developed. Eugenics initially preyed upon blacks, native Americans, and of the weak. Eugenics is a system that had been institutionalized. Many of the works of these institutions in my opinion did not know what they were apart of or the endgame. I'm sure many of them thought what they were doing was necessary. When I consider Pennhurst, I understand it's existence would never had been if it had not been for eugenics. This art work only confirms my intimations of racism. It's there for a reason and making a clear utterance.
Wow, the first time I ever heard such a thing. Have you ever studied or traced the origins of Eugenics that sprung out of Social Darwinism? This was a thought that originated by racist German and Anglo Saxons of Europe. Their cover was the “improvement the human species” through their systems of control (Eugenics). They believed that they were at the pentacle of human evolution. This thought gave reason for wanting to preserve and improve their “species” by way of selective mating and of coarse covertly destroy the “lesser races” through various methods. Now there were many philosophical debates among their own scholars which method would be the best course of action. One famous Eugenicist in America was Margaret Sanger who created Planned Parenthood which is nothing more but an abortionist clinic. Her aim was to reduce the numbers of blacks in America which end up being very successful because the #1 killer of blacks in America is now Abortion. Eugenicist roots are birth out of disdain for other races. Modern psychology was birth out of Eugenics and Pennhurst would have never came into existence if it was not for eugenics. I'm sorry if this sounds a bit too much but it's the truth.
I think in order to understand the meaning of this piece of art you have to take into consideration the dictum of that day. This is exactly what a commenter stated previously “Social Darwinism/Eugenics.” During this time Social Darwinism/Eugenics was gaining a lot of momentum and was being institutionalized, example of this is exactly this old facility. Whoever was stigmatized as being feeble minded were institutionalize and sterilized. They also perform many horrible experimentations on them. Social Darwinism/Eugenics was the driving force of the Nazis, to “preserve the race” aka “Aryans” by one day reeding the world of all who they thought were imbeciles thus stopping retrogression. This placement of art is an indirect way of saying blacks were imbeciles which they believed. This was a way to show their pure disdain for the black race and all the “lesser races” for that matter. This is a sad reality of history.