The very mind-set we define our national identity in opposition to—the evil that we tell our schoolchildren started with the Nazis, the others, the bad guys—we were the first in the world to make it national policy.
Not to be the worst but didnt they do ts in sparta and stuff? The author keeps hammering home that we were the first and i def get that we were the first to call it eugenics and base it off darwin but i feel like there's more history here