“Scientific Racism”
In various blogs shared on this page over the past year, I have attempted to connect the dots between J. D. Vance and Trump, and the nexus of tech billionaires who are backing them financially.
I have recently mentioned a thing called “Scientific Racism”, which is a term used by various academics to describe a contemporary resurgence of 1920s-style eugenics – this time using data from the field of population genetics.
I will write more on this subject after I get the next podcast episode out, but with just over two weeks until the most consequential election in my lifetime, it is crucial that all of us make clear to our friends, neighbors, relatives, and complete strangers what is actually going-on, and what is actually at stake here.
(Political disclaimer up front for the sake of tranparency: I believe the USA should have a proportional representation voting system. A two-party system must invariably lead to a polarised or tribalistic form of politics. In a less fraught or normal time, with a more democratic voting system, I would support neither of these “big two” parties. But these are not normal times.)
There is no longer any room for doubt that the Trump/Vance GOP, if they win, will attempt to move the USA away from democracy, and toward authoritarianism or outright fascism.
Every single indicator is already on full display:
1) Undermining of a free press through attacks on fact-based, investigative journalism
2) Undermining of an independent judiciary through stacking of courts with partisan loyalists
3) Undermining of a functioning, non-partisan justice department
4) Undermining of a functioning, non-partisan civil service
5) Undermining the neutrality of the armed forces by stating the intent to deploy them against political opponents
6) Undermining social cohesion with constant attacks on marginalised and minority groups
7) Undermining public political debate by characterising dissenting voices as “dangerous radicals”, “Marxists”, “evil”, etc.
In 1930s Germany under the Nazis, it was homosexuals, the disabled, Communists, Roma, and Jews who were publicly demonised as “poison” in the bloodstream of the German Nation.
In 2024, the GOP under Trump is singling-out many of the same groups, with a particular focus on immigrants.
It goes almost without saying that the mass deportations planned will be targeted in particular at immigrants of color.
It is a source of some alarm to this writer that no one seems to be mentioning that one of Trump’s largest financial backers, Elon Musk, is the grandson of one of the founders of the “technocracy” movement.
“Technocracy” is the idea that only people with a track record of technical expertise or SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE (as measured by “IQ”) should have a say in government.
And just by “chance” (yeah, right), the same men who wish to form a future technocracy are of European ancestry, and obsessed with “proving” an innate biological intellectual superiority to other “races”.
LEST I SOUND ALARMIST, please read articles like the one shared in the link left in the comments section.
We’ve all heard of “Friendfinder”, I presume?
The owner of that company (and many other wealthy tech barons) have been actively funding groups who supply the “science” behind the belief system of the “new eugenicists”.
These are the creeps lurking behind the curtains, whispering prompts to Trump and Vance.
Excerpt from linked article:
“…HDF [Human Diversity Foundation] is part of a movement to rehabilitate so-called race science as a topic of open debate. Labelled scientific racism by mainstream academics, it seeks to prove biological differences between races such as higher average IQ or a tendency to commit crime. Its supporters claim inequality between groups is largely explained by genetics rather than external factors like discrimination.
Dr Rebecca Sear, the director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University, described it as a “dangerous ideology” with political aims and real-world consequences.
“Scientific racism has been used to argue against any policies that attempt to reduce inequalities between racial groups,” she said. It was also deployed to “argue for more restrictive immigration policies, such as reducing immigration from supposedly ‘low IQ’ populations”.
In one conversation, HDF’s organiser was recorded discussing “remigration” – a euphemism for the mass removal of ethnic minorities – saying: “You’ve just got to pay people to go home.” The term has become a buzzword on the hard right, with Donald Trump using it in September to describe his own policies in a post on X that has been viewed 56m times.”
Image: Andrew Cornu of “Friendfinder”
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