News Headline
Human Biodiversity: the Pseudoscientific Racism of the Alt-Right
Source
Forward
Publication Date
2016-08-12
here’s a piece of the “alt-right” puzzle of bigotry you need to know more about: “human biodiversity.”An ideological successor to eugenics, human biodiversity (HBD) is, like eugenics (from the Greek words for “good” and “breeding”) primarily a euphemism. Ostensibly, HBD refers to the scientifically proven (and therefore apolitical) genetic differences between groups of humans. The term fuses biological and liberal language into a benign-sounding neologism, like “neurodiversity,” a key term within the autism rights movement.