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Entry: Margaret Sanger and the Eugenics Meme Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/margaret_sanger_and_the_eugenics_meme#24599 Post contents: Marcus, you want to exculpate Sanger from her opinons on eugenics because everybody was doing it. One big problem with that is that everybody wasn't doing it. An almost exact contemporary to Sanger was Ludwig von Mises who denounced eugenics as I write about in "Margaret Sanger vs. Ludwig von Mises on the Poor" http://blog.mises.org/archives/005756.asp It is often unfair when a historical figure's opinions on A are dismissed because they also happened to hold a now politically incorrect opinion on B. But what if their whole life's work was fundamentally about B? Then their opinions on that matter are not a distraction from considering them fairly, but a central aspect of considering their legacy. Sent at: 2008 10 07