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.

Some critics interpreted the ads as a play on eugenics, the discredited belief that humanity could be improved through selective breeding.

Kennedy has signaled his own fidelity to eugenics by suggesting recently that people with autism are nonfunctional members of society…

Those ads, which centered around a pun on the phrase “good genes,” were accused of promoting eugenics.