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- noun Plural form of
eugenicist .
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Examples
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And your sleight-of-mind trick of calling it "evolution" instead of "eugenics" is the very same trick employed by eugenicists from the time of Darwin's cousin Galton through Hitler all the way to North Carolina in the 1980s.
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Professor Lynn's major thesis in Dysgenics is that scientific evidence has proven the eugenicists were absolutely right in their concerns about genetic deterioration, and that we, as a society, have made a serious mistake by discounting them ….
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And no one, from the Sierra Club to T. Boone Pickens, are willing to risk being called eugenicists for the sake of global warming.
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Other American eugenicists expressed envy for their more successful German colleagues, as did Dr. Joseph S. DeJarnette, director of Western State Hospital in Virginia, in 1938:
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Nevertheless, "It is clear that scientific criticism did not have much effect on 'mainline' eugenicists," Allen writes.
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The “eugenicists” feared the spread of the lower orders 'inadequate genes.
Dysculturation?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But Deal and company refused to listen, instead heeding dubious estimates by the Federation for American Immigration Reform FAIR, a restrictionist organization deemed a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its ties to eugenicists and white separatists.
Daniel Altschuler: A Day Without Immigrants: Georgia's Anti-Immigration Law Daniel Altschuler 2011
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Detailed discussions of the life and works of odious literary figures like Carlyle and Ruskin, as well as various eugenicists who range from boorish to murderous.
Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For anyone wondering, eugenicists made any number of mistakes.
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Simply put, eugenicists believed character, which they felt fully fit to judge, was inherited as surely as blood type, or coat color in guinea pigs, and nothing could alter it, notes biologist Garland Allen of Washington University in St. Louis, in one commentary.
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