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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000
Oh dear, I just saw this now after mentioning Down Syndrome up above. Why is he an asshole -- what did he do?  |
He was quite prolific into describing the mental characteristics/ deficiencies of the races. You might remember that Trisomy 21 patients were called "mongoloids" in the past. That was because Dr. Down thought they looked Asian and that Asians were mentally deficient! Yeah. Basically he gets credit for the syndrome because he described the features, but his life's work was spent codifying how Caucasians were the smartest and best race and all the others were inferior. Personally, I hate when they name syndromes/ diseases for people. It's much better when it's called by the proper name.
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