This reminds me of the time about 20 or so years ago when nursing schools and their graduates were encouraged to refer to patients as "clients." As an internist I objected strongly to such a characterization. Clients always pay for a product; no pay, no product.
But the patient isn't like that: their health and welfare is primary. "Client" denigrates the doctor patient relationship.
"Throughout its history, Stanford has provided a home for many prominent eugenicists to develop and espouse their beliefs. The university’s first president, David Starr Jordan, was “one of the most prominent eugenicists of the early 20th century.” He not only hired other eugenicists, but shaped the university to make it “a hotbed of social Darwinist and eugenicist ideology.” Among his recruits was Ellwood Cubberley, who wrote in 1916 that “our schools are, in a sense, factories” where students were to be shaped for society, and the “elimination of waste” and the “continuous measurement of production” would be required. He compared education to agriculture, where people’s potential could be judged based on their heredity — if their parents were “smart,” let’s say, they would be too."
This reminds me of the time about 20 or so years ago when nursing schools and their graduates were encouraged to refer to patients as "clients." As an internist I objected strongly to such a characterization. Clients always pay for a product; no pay, no product.
But the patient isn't like that: their health and welfare is primary. "Client" denigrates the doctor patient relationship.
Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-silicon-valley-is-bringing-eugenics
"Throughout its history, Stanford has provided a home for many prominent eugenicists to develop and espouse their beliefs. The university’s first president, David Starr Jordan, was “one of the most prominent eugenicists of the early 20th century.” He not only hired other eugenicists, but shaped the university to make it “a hotbed of social Darwinist and eugenicist ideology.” Among his recruits was Ellwood Cubberley, who wrote in 1916 that “our schools are, in a sense, factories” where students were to be shaped for society, and the “elimination of waste” and the “continuous measurement of production” would be required. He compared education to agriculture, where people’s potential could be judged based on their heredity — if their parents were “smart,” let’s say, they would be too."