eugenics
Example Sentences
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Anomaly is a vocal defender of voluntary eugenics.
Schottenstein, an Orthodox Jew, was perplexed at the criticism that the campaign smacked of eugenics, the Nazi-embraced theory that selective reproduction can advance the human race.
Current eugenics rhetoric is, like its forebear, fundamentally incoherent.
From Los Angeles Times
Some critics interpreted the ads as a play on eugenics, the discredited belief that humanity could be improved through selective breeding.
From BBC
Kennedy has signaled his own fidelity to eugenics by suggesting recently that people with autism are nonfunctional members of society…
From Salon
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