While this questionnaire promotes sterilization of the mentally unfit and is not necessarily, in itself, racist, it is a great example of how these practices of US eugenics were promoted and sold to the people. This questionnaire shows how people in the US tried to rationalize practices that we would recognize today as extremely immoral. Eugenics in Germany triggered similar measures of sterilization, isolation, etc, then took the movement a step further: euthanasia.
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