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1. www.snopes.com › fact-check › bill-gates-plannedDid Bill Gates' Father 'Run' Planned Parenthood and Teach His ...

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   Jan 6, 2021 · Unsurprisingly, no evidence has been offered supporting the claim that the elder Gates embraced eugenics. It appears to be nothing more than a wild assumption based on Gates' philanthropic ...

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bill_Gates_SrBill Gates Sr. - Wikipedia

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   William Henry Gates II (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.

3. www.thelist.com › 403381 › the-truth-about-billThe Truth About Bill Gates' Connection To Planned Parenthood

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   May 7, 2021 · Rather unsurprisingly, a fact-check conducted by Snopes concluded that no evidence has been found to back up any claims that Bill Gates' father embraced eugenics or was in charge of Planned Parenthood throughout his life.

4. allthatsinteresting.com › eugenics-movement21 Eugenics Movement Supporters That Might Shock You

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   • Author: Kara Goldfarb

   • Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt was a proponent of the sterilization of criminals and the supposedly feeble-minded. In 1913, Roosevelt wrote a letter to eugenics supporter and biologist C.B.
   • Alexander Graham Bell. Telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell helped lead the First International Eugenics Conference in 1912. Bell also published a paper in which he bluntly listed the steps that would prevent the proliferation of the deaf: “(1) Determine the causes that promote intermarriages among the deaf and dumb; and (2) remove them.
   • Helen Keller. Even Helen Keller, surprisingly enough, advocated for the eugenics movement. She once stated, “Our puny sentimentalism has caused us to forget that a human life is sacred only when it may be of some use to itself and to the world.
   • Winston Churchill. Winston Churchill advocated for compulsory labor camps for mental defectives in 1911. The year prior to this, Churchill wrote a letter advocating for sterilization saying, "The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the Feeble-Minded and Insane classes ...

5. magazine.washington.edu › feature › the-immenseThe immense impact of Bill Gates Sr. | UW Magazine ...

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   B ill Gates Sr. gained wide acclaim for leading roles as husband, father, lawyer, philanthropist and global citizen. But when the University of Washington selected him Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus for 2013, it tugged mightily at the octogenarian’s heartstrings. Resonate, it should.

6. www.gatesfoundation.org › william-h-gates-srWilliam H. Gates Sr. | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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   William H. Gates Sr. (d. 2020) guided the vision and strategic direction of the foundation and served as an advocate for the foundation’s key issues.

7. dukespace.lib.duke.edu › items › 1cac9dfb-4b97-452fThe Saviorism of Melinda Gates: Eugenics ...

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   In this thesis, I aim to historically analyze and explicate long-lasting issues with philanthropic programs, specifically their health programs, by using Melinda Gates and her family planning programs at the Gates Foundation as a case study for the harms of philanthrocapitalism.