O*******d
发帖数: 20343 | 1 从1929年到1980年，美国给65,000被认为不适合生育的人强制结扎。 被结扎的人大多
数是穷人和黑人。其中最小年龄者10岁。 大部分人被骗做阑尾炎手术，其实是结扎手
术。北卡州有一个5人优生委员会，决定给何人结扎。
http://news.yahoo.com/north-carolina-moves-compensate-steriliza
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As many as 2,000 people forcibly sterilized under a
past North Carolina program should be compensated $50,000 each, a panel
voted on Tuesday, the first time a state has moved to pay victims of a
discredited human selection program.
North Carolina has 1,500 to 2,000 living victims of the program, meaning
that up to $100 million could be paid out in compensation, said Charmaine
Fuller Cooper, executive director of the North Carolina Justice for
Sterilization Victims Foundation, a state agency.
The five-member task force voted 3-2 in favor of the $50,000 figure. The two
dissenting members supported a floor of $20,000, Fuller Cooper said.
Governor Bev Perdue said she backed the compensation proposal and creation
of a permanent exhibit "so that this shameful period is never forgotten."
Fuller Cooper said the vote marked the first time a state had gone beyond
apologies and taken steps to compensate victims.
Nearly 7,600 people, mostly women, were sterilized from 1929 to 1974 under a
"eugenics" program aimed at improving society by weeding out people seen as
undesirable such as those convicted of crimes and the mentally handicapped,
according to a task force report in August.
About 40 percent of those sterilized were non-white, and some victims were
as young as 10, the report said. The largest number of procedures were in
Charlotte's Mecklenberg County.
Eugenics is a belief that the quality of the human population can be
improved by either discouraging people with genetic defects or undesirable
traits from having children, or encouraging those with desirable traits to
have more children.
Most states abolished their eugenics programs after World War II but North
Carolina's peaked from 1946 to 1968, leaving it with more surviving victims
than other states.
The state legislature abolished the program in 1977. Involuntary eugenics
laws were repealed in 2003.
A North Carolina House of Representatives study committee created in 2008
urged compensation of $20,000 for each surviving victim. The legislature
declined to fund it. |
b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 2 不止北卡。当年有30多个州有相似的政策。主要是为了减少社会福利开支。最早是对付
穷苦的白人妇女。后来主要针对黑人了。 |
D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 3 Too bad these poor people could not seek asylum (as opposed those who
suffered the same treatment in China) anywhere. |
b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 4 除了北卡。其他州连谦都没有道。
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: Too bad these poor people could not seek asylum (as opposed those who
: suffered the same treatment in China) anywhere.
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m*******l
发帖数: 12782 | |
D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 6 NC is special in this case because it continued to do this even after the
WWII, whereas same practice was largely abandoned elsewhere before that.
But the DEM Governor now in NC seems to push for the "compensation" to be
allocated to the surviving victims, while elsewhere only a verbal apology
was offered.
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: 不止北卡。当年有30多个州有相似的政策。主要是为了减少社会福利开支。最早是对付
: 穷苦的白人妇女。后来主要针对黑人了。
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D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 7 Indeed.
Because other states are firmly in GOP's hand?
While NC now has a DEM governor?
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: 除了北卡。其他州连谦都没有道。
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 8 南部那些州，就算民主党执政，也是很保守的。
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: Indeed.
: Because other states are firmly in GOP's hand?
: While NC now has a DEM governor?
|
D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 9 It is $50K.
【在 m*******l 的大作中提到】
: 美国人赔50万可以了。
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D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 10 Eugenics is now a dirty word in this country because its obvious association
with Nazis Germany and also because of this page of dark history well in
the U.S.
China continues to advocate "eugenics" in all official occasions. |
O*******d
发帖数: 20343 | 11 中国应该发明一个新词。 中国曾经发明了一些概念，被美国拿来使用。 例如，把监狱
叫做改造中心 Correction Center。
association
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: Eugenics is now a dirty word in this country because its obvious association
: with Nazis Germany and also because of this page of dark history well in
: the U.S.
: China continues to advocate "eugenics" in all official occasions.
|
H*********S
发帖数: 22772 | 12 这么好的政策肿么停了？
你要在逛磨时看到某些族裔带着一群几岁到十几岁的小孩，车里还推着外加肚子里还装
着的时候，你就知道好政策真不该停。
association
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: Eugenics is now a dirty word in this country because its obvious association
: with Nazis Germany and also because of this page of dark history well in
: the U.S.
: China continues to advocate "eugenics" in all official occasions.
|
D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 13 You can go restore that "good" policy.
【在 H*********S 的大作中提到】
: 这么好的政策肿么停了？
: 你要在逛磨时看到某些族裔带着一群几岁到十几岁的小孩，车里还推着外加肚子里还装
: 着的时候，你就知道好政策真不该停。
:
: association
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H*********S
发帖数: 22772 | 14 believe it or not, it will be coming back
【在 D**S 的大作中提到】
: You can go restore that "good" policy.
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