Scientific Racism
However, Goring, funded by the British government, together with Galton used Darwin's ideas about how natural selection supports the survival of a species. Galton thought that humanity is the only biological species on Earth that evades the benevolent impact of natural selection through the development of civilization. This reduces the pressure of natural selection in human society, which, in turn, worsens the physical and mental constitution of offspring, leading to degeneration. According to Rafter, “Galton invented the term eugenics to denote efforts to breed better human beings and prevent reproduction by the unfit” (Rafter, 2011 p.237). In other words, Galton believed, that the best should choose the best as a result healthy, beautiful,
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Moreover, scientific racism served the purposes of inhuman exploitation, and often the justification for the extermination of the Indians in America, Africans, and many peoples of South Asia, Australia and Oceania and settled deep in the consciousness of Western people and culture. Furthermore, the study gave an opportunity to divide people by their biological characteristics. Although, it served in the interests of slaveholders, who argued that the equation of people in rights would contradict the very nature in which inequality prevails. Scientific racism became an ideology that uses external differences as the main reason for refusing equal treatment for members of another group on the basis of scientific, biological or moral characteristics, consider them different from their own group and initially downstream. It was used to scientifically prove the serialization of people to prevent the emergence of children from families with mental and physical disabilities, alcoholics, drug addicts, and criminals. Finally, scientific racism and eugenics resulted in Nazi ideology by emergence from fear of degeneration of mankind such as alcoholism and syphilis and ended as the extermination of the Jews. It becomes part of criminal justice and resulted in state policies and police
Moreover, scientific racism served the purposes of inhuman exploitation, and often the justification for the extermination of the Indians in America, Africans, and many peoples of South Asia, Australia and Oceania and settled deep in the consciousness of Western people and culture. Furthermore, the study gave an opportunity to divide people by their biological characteristics. Although, it served in the interests of slaveholders, who argued that the equation of people in rights would contradict the very nature in which inequality prevails. Scientific racism became an ideology that uses external differences as the main reason for refusing equal treatment for members of another group on the basis of scientific, biological or moral characteristics, consider them different from their own group and initially downstream. It was used to scientifically prove the serialization of people to prevent the emergence of children from families with mental and physical disabilities, alcoholics, drug addicts, and criminals. Finally, scientific racism and eugenics resulted in Nazi ideology by emergence from fear of degeneration of mankind such as alcoholism and syphilis and ended as the extermination of the Jews. It becomes part of criminal justice and resulted in state policies and police