It was mentioned in reference to the concept of feeblemindedness and its potential threat to society, putting forth the idea that those perceived as 'almost normal' were a greater danger.
There was a Canadian physician and eugenicist named Helen McMurkey who issued these reports on feeble mindedness between 1907 and 1918 and published a study in 1920 called The Almosts, a study of feeb...
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It was mentioned in reference to the concept of feeblemindedness and its potential threat to society, putting forth the idea that those perceived as 'almost normal' were a greater danger.
There was a Canadian physician and eugenicist named Helen McMurkey who issued these reports on feeble mindedness between 1907 and 1918 and published a study in 1920 called The Almosts, a study of feeble minded, a study of the feeble minded.
And the idea was that feeble mindedness was this really dangerous high class of mental defectiveness. People that could on first glance pass as normal, but were therefore an even greater threat to society and had to be stopped.
Every mental defective is a potential criminal, she wrote.