Sentences with phrase «by eugenicists»
Standardized tests first entered the public schools in the 1920s, pushed by eugenicists whose pseudoscience promoted the «natural superiority» of wealthy, white, U.S. - born males.
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• Did you know the Singapore school system, the one widely lauded by some prominent education experts, was crafted on an expressly eugenicist platform?
Ethnocentrics and eugenicists, who viewed intelligence and other social behaviors as being determined by biology and race, latched onto IQ tests.
It was sent by Herschel to Francis Galton, a London eugenicist and pioneer of identification technologies.
To put it very bluntly indeed, the eugenicists of mid 20th Century Europe and America had a moral responsibility, it would seem, to warn of the dangers of the contamination of superior races by inferior blood, through inter-racial marriages.
That would be matched by my objection to analogizing people who think that GW is 90 % likely to be more than 50 % A to Eugenicists.
And by the same token, it could be argued just as easily that demands for acting on the best scientific evidence and scientific opinion makes bedfellows of greens and the eugenicists of the early - mid 20th century.
Biologists might no longer be eugenicists by default, but they would rather not dwell on the fact that they once were.