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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.
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Race suicide?
Yeah, I was hoping that maybe back then the term was meant to refer more to the “human race”, so a concern about population growth.
But some quick googling indicates the eugenics-meaning version of the term was coined around 1900. Honestly not a good look for Everett.
I feel like Everett is held back by the views and vocabulary of the times here. His point is less to-do with race relations or politics and is really about how it is ridiculous that a man with kids is being turned down from housing just for having kids. I'm assuming he just wanted to be as insulting as possible, and that was a heavily fear-mongered issue at the time.
Cool motive. Still eugenics