"The American masses were not rising up demanding to sterilize, institutionalize and dehumanize their neighbours and kinfolk. Eugenics was a movement of the nation’s elite thinkers and many of its most progressive reformers...this battle to wipe out whole ethnic groups was fought not by armies with guns nor by hate sects at the margins rather, this pernicious white-gloved war was prosecuted by esteemed professors, elite universities, wealthy industrialists, and government officials colluding in a racist, pseudoscientific movement called eugenics".