It is cherry picked. Her views were a little 'complicated' though... She was marginally pro-eugenics, she wanted to exclude the "unfit" from being able to immigrate, but always made that distinction along SES/education status rather than racial lines (still, I think she must have recognized the large overlap there). On the other hand, she was very pro-civil rights movement for blacks and a feminist first and foremost.
So, I'd say she was a cancerous progressive but just smart enough to recognize that subsidizing/encouraging the breeding & immigration of low-SES people would be objectively bad for everyone. I doesn't seem to me that she had any sense of love/loyalty for her people though, her motivation was a instead a universalist+feminist suffering prevention ideology.
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