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human biodiversity

human biodiversity noun: a dogwhistle for eugenics, racial purity, and similar pseudoscientific theories.

Noun

human biodiversity (uncountable)

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

Words formed from human biodiversity

Questions about human biodiversity

What does human biodiversity mean?
Human biodiversity means a dogwhistle for eugenics, racial purity, and similar pseudoscientific theories.
What part of speech is human biodiversity?
Human biodiversity is a noun.

Words near human biodiversity in the dictionary

  1. human being
  2. human beings
  3. human betaherpesvirus 5
  4. human billboard
  5. human billboards
  6. human biodiversity
  7. human blockhead
  8. human blockheads
  9. human bodies
  10. human botflies
  11. human botfly

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