as in segregation
the practice of controlling which people become parents in an attempt to improve the genetic composition of the human race
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The largest detention center in California, Adelanto has for years been the focus of complaints from detainees, attorneys and state and federal inspectors about inadequate medical care, overly restrictive segregation and lax mental health services.—
Jenny Jarvie,
Los Angeles Times,
20 June 2025 -
This is maybe understandable in the former states of the Confederacy where Republicans took control not as the Party of Lincoln, but as the alternative to the Democrats who had abandoned legal segregation after 90 years of succoring segregation and Jim Crow.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
20 June 2025
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