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I saw on a TikTok that Alexander Graham Bell wanted to ban intermarriages between deaf people and people who are not deaf, wanted to ban sign language, and was pro-eugenics. Is this true? And, if so, how common were these views about deaf people?

by /u/ctnutmegger in /r/AskHistorians

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