Meaning of human biodiversity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dogwhistle for eugenics, racial purity, and similar pseudoscientific theories.
   euphemistic, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see human, biodiversity.
   uncountable

Examples

“Of course, racism has a long and inglorious history in US politics. But it now has a very new iteration in the nerdy tech-savvy generation of the alt right. Racism 2.0. They don't speak of eugenics but rather of maintaining "human biodiversity". And they have a thing about IQ tests showing that white people are cleverer than others.”

“Eugenic thinking is not safely in the past. Today, members of the "human biodiversity movement" enthusiastically tweet and blog about discoveries in molecular genetics that they mistakenly believe support the ideas that inequality is genetically determined; that policies like a more generous welfare state are thus impotent; and that genetics confirms a racialized hierarchy of human worth.”

“The appearance underlines past incidents in which Pinker has encountered criticism for his association with advocates of so-called “human biodiversity”, which other academics have called a “rebranding” of racial genetic essentialism and scientific racism.”

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