>>No jokes about Republicans please... <g>
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>>A few years back there was a thread that had to do with an elitist movement that proposed that removing the unintelligent, handicapped, etc. from the population was a good thing. Anyone remember what that movement was called?
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>The Germans tried it in WWII - ewgenics(sic) pronounced (you genics)

Eugenics is what you're thinking of, and certain states here (I think Virginia or West Virginia was one) that implemented a policy of sterilizing individuals that were deemed 'sub-standard', usually the mentally handicapped or borderline handicapped, etc.