Futurist Nicola Tesla was a eugenicist

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Last Friday, the great blogger Matt Novak (who you should read often) uncovered evidence that Nikola Tesla, writing in 1935, had expressed his support for Eugenics.  Here’s what Tesla wrote in an article about his predictions for the year 2100.

“The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit…”

View the original article here: Tesla, Eugenics And Rationalizing Dehumanization

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