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America had laws banning ugly people from public until 1974

Tuesday December 16, 2025. 05:25 PM , from BoingBoing
America had laws banning ugly people from public until 1974
From 1867 to 1974, cities across America enforced what are now called 'ugly laws' — ordinances that made it illegal for anyone 'diseased, maimed, mutilated, or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object' to appear in public. — Read the rest
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