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Tops Friendly Market
Photo: A former Tops Friendly Market, by Nicholas Eckhart, via Flickr (cropped).

How Science Fueled the White Supremacist Mass Murderer in Buffalo, NY

Over the weekend, a teenage male shooter perpetrated a horrific mass murder in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Read More ›
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Anti-Racists Often Ignore This Non-Religious Source of Racism

Many white nationalists claim that Darwinism directly supports their ideology, because they think that races have evolved to different levels. Read More ›
Unite the Right rally, Charlottesvile, VA
Photo credit: Unite the Right rally, Charlottesvile, VA, © 2017 Rodney Dunning, via Flicker (cropped).

Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›
Charlottesville demonstration 2017
Photo: Charlottesville demonstration, 2017, by Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC), CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism

The outlook of Hitler, the Nazis, and contemporary white nationalists have been significantly shaped by Darwinism. Read More ›
Charlottesville demonstration 2017
Photo: Charlottesville demonstration, 2017, by Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC), CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ties that Bind: The Alt-Right’s Connections to Social Darwinist Madison Grant and Eugenics

It’s important to understand what the Alt-Right believes. They are not just an extreme offshoot of either the Right or the Left. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Spencer, by Vas Panagiotopoulos [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. Read More ›
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Hitler's religion
Photo: Hitler in 1941, via Wikicommons.

Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda

The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality. Read More ›
Ota Benga
Photo: African pygmy Ota Benga was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1906, in support of Darwinian theory, via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Q&A with Weikart on Darwinian Racism

What about the objection that Darwinism, properly understood, doesn’t support scientific racism (much less Nazi racism)? Read More ›
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Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism

Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right. Read More ›
Elliot Tommingo
Photo: Elliot Tommingo, via YouTube and Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs (screenshot).

Darwinian Racism: D.C. Official Would See Unvaccinated Die of COVID as a “Necessary Evil”

Elliot Tommingo holds the opinion that residents too stupid not to get vaccinated should die. Read More ›

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