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Everett True Comics
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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.
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Race suicide?
Yeah, I was hoping that maybe back then the term was meant to refer more to the “human race”, so a concern about population growth.
But some quick googling indicates the eugenics-meaning version of the term was coined around 1900. Honestly not a good look for Everett.
I've seen other comics where Everett rejected the concept. One was when he told a woman he believed in it (in the sense of wanting it to happen) and threatened to kill children, and another when he told a man who brought it up that he was introducing him to race homicide. (I guess the term "genocide" hadn't entered the vocabulary.)