Dr. Coates,
I admit to not understanding some of the list, I did find #1 (Islamasocialism) troubling as well.
A colleague pointed out to me that sterilization was done to poor African American women, the deaf, blind, Native Americans, people with epilepsy etc. in the name of eugenics. Hitler killed gay people as well as the physically deformed and Jews.
Perhaps the best response is to educate people on the horrors that are part of a truly stupid statement such as this.
Maggie
Here are a couple of Supreme Court Cases:
Sterilization rates across the country were relatively low (California being the sole exception) until the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell which legitimized the forced sterilization of patients at a Virginia home for the mentally retarded. The number of sterilizations performed per year increased until another Supreme Court case, Skinner v. Oklahoma, 1942, complicated the legal situation by ruling against sterilization of criminals if the equal protection clause of the constitution was violated. That is, if sterilization was to be performed, then it could not exempt white-collar criminals.[19]
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Good morning,
This letter is in response to "the infamous top 7 list" in Thursday's Amusement. I cannot believe that on a campus where tolerance for GBLTQ students and faculty is mediocre at best, the Amusement staff would list "sterilize the gays" as a way for President-elect Barack Obama to save the world. I realize the list is meant as a joke, but intolerance, discrimination and outright hatred is not funny nor is it an effective way to promote any sort of positive dialogue between different groups on this campus. I think the Amusement can and must find more creative and less offensive ways for Obama to save the world. If this is the type of article the Amusement is going to continue to publish, I think the last thing on earth Obama needs to do is "make Amusement its own publication again."
V/r,
Katie Booher
Miami University 2009
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