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eugenics

[ UK /juːd‍ʒˈɛnɪks/ ]
[ US /juˈdʒɛnɪks/ ]
NOUN
  1. the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)

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  • This antimodernist nativism pervaded the 1920s, but it was particularly visible in the scientific racism of the eugenics movement, the xenophobia of the "100 percent American" movement, the sharp resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan, the post – World War One Red Scare (directed primarily at immigrant radicals), and in a series of draconian immigration restriction acts. 11 Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
  • Lewis puts this very well, Eugenics have made certain that only demi-gods will now be born: psycho-analysis that none of them shall lose or smirch his divinity: economics that they shall have to hand all that demi-gods require. C.S. Lewis on Evolutionism (the Myth)
  • [73] The entire field of race betterment and social improvement is divided between _eugenics_, which considers only germinal or heritable changes in the race; and _euthenics_, which deals with improvement in the individual, and in his environment. Applied Eugenics
  • The person who finally managed to bring obloquy to the ‘science’ of eugenics was of course Adolf Hitler.
  • A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction.
  • One prong comprised ‘positive’ eugenics, which meant manipulating human heredity and/or breeding to produce superior people.
  • …er, no. the capo is the one who takes a job as spokesman for the grandson of the chief funder of the american eugenics movement. Now That’s What I Call A Capo | Jewschool
  • In 1883, Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, actually coined the term ‘Eugenics’ (good in birth) as a science dedicated to improving human stock by getting rid of so-called undesirables and increasing the number of desirables.
  • Social and ethical concomitants of cognitive and behavioral genetics: eugenics, social Darwisinism, race, sex.
  • Excerpt: In practical terms, "Conservation of IQ" is used to argue for limits on immigration, against various meliorist attempts, and possibly even for eugenics. Schlesinger Obit, Samurai Vader, IQ Scarcity, Floyd/Bee Gees Mashup
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