Trump Blames Immigration on Genes

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Trump's talk of 'bad genes' is rooted in eugenics. Experts explain why it's making a comeback

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The eugenics movement is once again taking center stage in the U.S. in the immigration policies and rhetoric promoted by Trump .

Eugenics was popular at the turn of the 20th century , before the devastation of the Holocaust quelled public support for it.

Even well-intentioned scientists have fed into this shift by promoting genetic determinism.

In the early 2010s , there was a shift in how mainstream academic circles discussed ideas that intelligence was genetic or that race had a biological basis.

The open science movement around this time proved to boost the spread of flawed research on race, ethnicity, and genetics.

The solution to the weaponization of genetics isn’t gatekeeping research, experts agree.

The failure to deeply engage with the dark history of eugenics and the way it’s informed a number of academic fields is linked to current political hostility directed toward immigrants, an immigration scholar says.

The field has yet to truly rethink its buy-in of the idea that genes play a central role in people's abilities and behaviors.

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