Flashback. Progressive eugenicist Richard T. Ely also believed that the U.S. was being flooded by people from "shithole countries." From his 1909 principles of economics textbook

Progressive eugenicist Richard T. Ely also believed that the U.S. was being flooded by people from "shithole countries." From his 1909 principles of economics textbook: pic.twitter.com/0VMh6HbHC4

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