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The American eugenics movement considerably predates the Progressive movement, though, having roots in antebellum racism.

Begin? We barely moved away from it to begin with; state-organized involuntary eugenics was actively, openly practiced in the United States until the 1980s and remains explicitly Constitutional to this day. That's not even counting cases of "voluntary" sterilization without actual proper...

The West Virginia state legislature appears to be in the habit of wildly over correcting; they had previously, in 2017 passed a law (House Bill 2459) to encourage the creation of substance abuse treatment facilities by completely exempting them from requiring a certificate of need from the...

On a note that we can all laugh at, the West Virginia state legislature has passed a bizarre law making it illegal to have more than 250 beds worth of substance abuse treatment facilities in any county. This was apparently done at the behest of residents of Wood County, who argue that it's...

Keep in mind, perhaps, that people are normally allowed to hurt animals quite a bit more than that before animal abuse laws actually kick in. Animals fall into the difficult legal category of being actual property, not persons, and moreover, a category of property where being bred, killed, and...

It’s not entirely clear, to be honest. Kipling’s poem was selectively quoted by the epically racist Senator Tillman as an argument against the Treaty of Paris, but Tillman was spinning it as, “See, civilizing the savages is expensive, we have no such duty and it is our entitlement as the...

I'm going to point out that by the standards of his day, Kipling was not only intensely political, but often entirely "woke" in terms of standing up for what he saw as correct principle, regardless of popularity or political benefit. For example, here's an absolutely scathing bit of poetry that...

I am literally arguing that it is perfectly okay for car manufacturers to offer the *option* of paying a monthly fee to enable hardware features in the car that you *didn't otherwise pay for*, as opposed to *only* offering those hardware features as one-time purchases at the time of original...

Well, look at it this way -- why should the manufacturer be forced to give you options for free? This actually does give the customer more choices; by having the options physically present but software disabled, it allows you to retroactively buy the options later on, rather than just *not...

I don't see how they're getting that "ratio". Here are the actual FBI UCR stats: https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend If you pull up homicides by offender race, the statistics are as follows: 5832 perpetrators out of 10440 offenses gives 55.8%, which is...

Yes, but I'm pointing out that reluctance to immediately take the most direct action is not a unique or unprecedented circumstance.

This isn't special treatment -- the appointment of flag rank officers has always been political on the civilian end, and that means that their removal has political impact. General MacArthur wasn't charged and court-martialed for openly rebelling against Presidential authority and communicating...

Except, of course, you flatly can't get approved for gender surgery until you're over 18, and treatments other than surgery are still highly restricted and vetted by multiple healthcare professionals. In any case, that's a rare edge case. What the bill is actually about is medical...

You do realize that the stamped and taxed tea was *cheaper* than the illicit tea which was smuggled in by colonial traders and sold for considerable markups. The Boston Tea Party was literally a bunch of criminal smugglers who were angry that their highly profitable criminal activity was now...

That's not what the Constitution says, nor what it has meant in practice for the entire history of the country. If free speech was in fact utterly absolute, then doing things like disseminating classified information and planning criminal acts would be Constitutionally protected free speech.

I feel like I have to point out that this is absolutely correct, both philosophically and legally. By definition, no right is absolute, and a huge part of where various social movements go horribly wrong is them deciding that this right or that right actually is absolute and overrides all other...

Political protest has always been banned from the Olympics, though, with many host nations taking this as an opportunity for violent crackdowns against dissidents (most notably Mexico in '68), and even more peaceful countries have had some very, very ugly policies about getting rid of homeless...

Depends on the state. Some states are much stricter than others; Oregon is among the strictest, requiring sixteen hours (i.e. two days) of training and license renewal every two years with an four hour refresher course for basic unarmed security, and a further twenty-four hours of training for...

To be fair and honest, the rules about professional work get really complicated, really fast, and do vary from field to field as well. So while I'm familiar with the principles involved from my history as an EMT and my dad's history as an architect, I don't know the exact specifics for...

That's not against the rules at all. The rule is against doing *professional work* as a licensed professional while not licensed; pro bono work is not exempted from this, because it's still professional work.