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The policy project of eliminating supposedly bad genes from the national gene pool through sterilization, execution, or immigration restriction.
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Eugenics
The policy project of eliminating supposedly bad genes from the national gene pool through sterilization, execution, or immigration restriction.
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He presents Darwinism as a theology of human progress that legitimated imperialism, racism, and eugenics by replacing Christian equality with survival of the fittest.
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From a 1935 vantage point, Jiang says the Soviet Union looked likely to collapse because purges, capitalist encirclement, anti-communism, race science, and American investment in Germany all pointed against Soviet survival.
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Eugenics, in Jiang's account, turns evolutionary selection into a national policy of purifying the gene pool through forced sterilization, execution, and immigration restriction.
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The United States was a central site of the eugenics movement around the turn of the twentieth century, with many states passing forced sterilization laws.
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Madison Grant's Nordic race theory influenced Nazi eugenics policy, including the murder of disabled and handicapped people.
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"We have to hold faith. There are things that we cannot understand. God has a plan, but it is a mysterious plan. And so..."
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"And evolution would give rise to racism and eugenics, okay? So before Darwinism, we didn't really have a concept of race because everyone was..."
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"So might makes right. So in many ways, evolution is a rejection of Christianity. So you would think that Christians would oppose Darwinism and..."
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"Second thing is you will also notice that the Germans didn't get that far in this war. They at most got to the outskirts..."
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"Why? Because Stalin was purging all the major leadership of the Soviet Union, creating a lot of discontent, a lot of civil conflict. As..."
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"...that at this point in history, race science is very popular, eugenics is very popular. And guess what? The Americans, the British, and the..."
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"...Europeans were superior. Okay? This also leads to the idea of eugenics. This is Francis Galton, who is a cousin of Charles Darwin. And..."
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"...WASP elite. Okay? And that's why in the United States, this eugenics movement really takes off. Okay? Really the center of the eugenics movement..."
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"...a lot of his ideas will become a basis for Nazi eugenics policy. And the Nazis were notorious for taking the disabled, the handicapped,..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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