The world’s largest and best-known group of human geneticists apologized Tuesday for the role some of its early leaders played in the American eugenics movement, as well as the harmful ways the field has been used to fuel racism and discrimination.
The Fix’s Aaron Blake analyzes how and why conservatives continued to embrace the racist “great replacement” theory, even after it was linked to mass shootings.
Pseudoscientific racism had, by then, been guided for centuries by deep prejudices among European Americans, who had used it as justification for slavery, brutality and discrimination against those they deemed inferior.The advent of eugenics, a term coined in 1883 by British polymath Francis Galton and defined as the science of improving the human race “through better breeding,” rested on a similar desire by Europeans to dominate, as well as the pervasive cultural fears of the times.
“The report and its findings are painful and document a history that must be told and taught so we can prevent a resurgence,” of genetic racism, Lee said in a statement released with the report. But the report also paints a portrait of an organization that over the last two decades has evolved to become more activist and outspoken.In the early 2000s, the findings of the Human Genome Project underscored the rightness of that course.
However, thinking about humans in terms of genetic race is deeply ingrained and “is very, very difficult to uproot … Some people derive advantage and don’t want to let it go,” he said. Others fear they will lose the ability to track the effects of racism.descriptors for genetic population groups that might substitute for historic racial groups when appropriate in genetic research.
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