Tesla, eugenics, and rationalizing dehumanization

November 20, 2012

Tesla was hardly alone in believing this. Support for eugenics was one of the few things that people across political lines in the early 20th Century would agree on, from socialists like H.G. Wells to the Supreme Court of the United States to conservative Winston Churchill to libertarian science fiction writer Robert Heinlein. Several American states and European nations passes laws that sterilized those considered to have “undesirable” genes. (Forbes)