feeble-mindedness

They ignored poverty, disease, under-nutrition, ignorance and other problems that its proponents linked to "feeble-mindedness" or "criminality" among the poor.

Genetics journal reveals dark past 2011

They wrote up elaborate case studies of individuals they deemed defective, and carefully catalogued their extended families, using these pedigree studies to demonstrate how promiscuity, laziness, criminality, pauperism, and feeble-mindedness ran in the family.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

Once the Democratic nomination is wrapped up by Obama and America's focus shifts to McCain, his feeble-mindedness and senility will be exposed.

Several protesters interrupt McCain speech 2008

The state of Virginia continued sterilizations until 1972, with more than 7,000 women sterilized for drunkenness, feeble-mindedness, and various forms of mental illness and "immorality" -- for "hereditary inferiority".

Dan Agin: Black and White in America III: From Eugenics to Madness 2009

He's able to dismiss the opinions of "typical" citizens with a regal wave of his hand as being merely psychological symptoms of an underlying frustration, which his laser vision can clearly see, but in our feeble-mindedness we cannot hope to understand.

Obama Camp: Hillary Complained About Rough Debate Treatment, Too 2009

How much do you think you could get away with if all your coworkers could be counted on to get your back, and if reports of abuse by your victims could be waved off as literally the product of insanity or feeble-mindedness?

Institutionalized sadism 2009

How much do you think you could get away with if all your coworkers could be counted on to get your back, and if reports of abuse by your victims could be waved off as literally the product of insanity or feeble-mindedness?

Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2009 – March – 19 2009

In Virginia, for example, where the practice continued until 1972, more than 7,000 women were sterilized for drunkenness, feeble-mindedness, and various forms of mental illness and "immorality" -- for "genetic inferiority".

Dan Agin: Myths of the Crazy Ape #3: A Moral Instinct? 2008

Did He describe the relationship in those terms passionately and continually only for our feeble-mindedness?

Father is a metaphor. Even he is a metaphor. - 22 Words 2008

In an essay, The Fallacy of Eugenics4, Chesterton said that we betray our own feeble-mindedness by calling them ‘Unfit’.

Chesterton and the Eugenic Nightmare 2008