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Social Darwinism, as almost everyone knows, is a Bad Thing. Hofstadter, Richard (1992) [1944]. Social Darwinism in American Thought (new introduction ed.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0807055038. Jones, Leslie, "Social Darwinism Revisited", History Today, Vol. 48, August 1998 Archived 4 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
Former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric recalls the eugenics movement and the influence it had on American life in the early 1900s, writes Paul Moses.
American eugenicists tended to believe in the genetic superiority of Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon peoples, supported strict immigration and anti-miscegenation laws, and supported the forcible sterilization of the poor, disabled and "immoral." [13] Eugenics supporters hold signs criticizing various "genetically inferior" groups.
The theory of evolution by natural selection has also been adopted as a foundation for various ethical and social systems, such as social Darwinism, an idea that preceded the publication of The Origin of Species, popular in the 19th century, which holds that "the survival of the fittest" (a phrase coined in 1851 by Herbert Spencer, [1] 8 years before Darwin published his theory of evolution ...
The theory of eugenics acted as the reasoning provided as to why developmentally disabled people were targeted and forcibly sterilized at high rates. These people were seen as a "danger to society" and the goal was to prevent them from reproducing, mostly because of the false pretenses held by society that mental disability was inheritable. [9]
OPINION: In the leaked opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Alito refers to an argument Justice Thomas has dog-whistled for years: Abortion is a form of eugenics designed to stem the growth of the ...
A 1930s exhibit by the Eugenics Society.Some of the signs read "Healthy and Unhealthy Families", "Heredity as the Basis of Efficiency" and "Marry Wisely".Eugenics (/ j uː ˈ dʒ ɛ n ɪ k s / yoo-JEN-iks; from Ancient Greek εύ̃ (eû) 'good, well' and -γενής (genḗs) 'born, come into being, growing/grown') [1] is a set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality ...
In Search of Human Nature: The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought. Oxford University Press. Field, Geoffrey G. (1977). "Nordic Racism", Journal of the History of Ideas 38 (3), pp. 523–540. Guterl, Matthew Press (2001). The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Lee, Erika.