human biodiversity

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human biodiversity (uncountable)

(alt-right, euphemistic) A dogwhistle for eugenics, racial purity, and similar pseudoscientific theories.
- 2016 August 25, Giles Fraser, “The alt right is old racism for the tech-savvy generation”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:
  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.
- 2018 July 24, Kathryn Paige Harden, “Why Progressives Should Embrace the Genetics of Education”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-17:
  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.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see human,‎ biodiversity.