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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 11:59
David T. Beito

Film on Compulsory Eugenics from the 1930s (Oliver Wendell Holmes reference)

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The judge ordering the sterilization paraphrases Oliver Wendell Holmes' infamous line from the majority opinion in Buck v. Bell: "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."