Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socialdarwinism, aggregated by home.social.
Time for a US Constitutional Amendment barring laws that govern us all, that are implicitly, or increasingly explicitly, based on supernatural belief systems.
That includes the pseudo-science of #eugenics and #racialization, #SocialDarwinism, and #neoliberal high priest's faith in an "invisible hand" guiding markets and so our lives.
WTH Is This?!?
The Christofascist Cult
#US #Culture #Politics #Theocracy #Ethnocentrism #WhiteNationalism #Capitalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E1srNnN4GY
A masculinity crisis
* American Crusade w/ Eleanor Janega
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chvlbx9zAHg
* Manosphere: A community centred on male grievance and empowerment.
https://theconversation.com/youd-better-start-paying-attention-to-the-manosphere-youre-living-in-it-279547
* Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality
https://confrontingpoverty.org/research/rugged-individualism-and-the-misunderstanding-of-american-inequality/
#MasculinityCrisis #manosphere #masculinity #individualism #competition #SocialDarwinism #RuggedIndividualism #ressentiment #entitlement #equality #inequality #CultureOfMisogyny #misogyny #ChristianRight #violence #war #zeitgeist
Why Does Being a Black Woman Feel Like a Humiliation Ritual?
#LanisLens #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #History #Culture #Identity #Intersectionality #Womanism #Feminism #Women #Womxn #LGBTQ #BlackQueerness #Trans #WhiteSupremacy #Patriarchy #Misogynoir #Transmisogynoir #Lookism #Featurism #Colorism #Capitalism #Neoliberalism #SocialDarwinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu_3r2lqQeE
"Campaigning in 2024, Trump said about Kennedy, 'I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines.'”
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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"According to the Johns Hopkins Measles Tracker, by the 48th week of the year in 2023, there had been 41 cases of measles in the country. In 2024, there were 284 cases. In 2025, there were 1837 cases.
All this from just a kid with a dream, that one day people would die by the millions from preventable diseases."
Paul Waldman
#Trump #RFKJr #Republicans #vaccines #measles #disinformation #SouthCarolina #Utah #EconomicElites #SocialDarwinism
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-rfk-jr-catastrophe-holds-an-important
Anti-Vaxxers Plan to “Make Europe Healthy Again”
An anti-vaxxer sitting on the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee pitched European parliament members on “MEHA.”
https://piefed.social/c/europe/p/1388741/anti-vaxxers-plan-to-make-europe-healthy-again
'The Sovereign Individual' - The winner-takes-all
"Across its 400 pages, The Sovereign Individual celebrates the instincts of our impossibly wealthy technofeudal overlords to accumulate, hoard and insulate themselves from the messier demands of mass democracy...This libertarian manifesto, loved by Peter Thiel, urges a ‘cognitive elite’ to see selfishness as a virtue."
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https://theconversation.com/this-libertarian-manifesto-loved-by-peter-thiel-urges-a-cognitive-elite-to-see-selfishness-as-a-virtue-263742
#society #civility #individualism #PublicSphere #surveillance #TechIndustry #fortresses #violence #VibeShift #SocialDarwinism #book
Hipster Eugenics: More genetically 'superior' kids
While the Nazis aggressively enforced a system of blonde haired and blue-eyed people, many parents today desire gene-edited babies with blond hair, blue eyes and a selection of genetically 'superior' traits.
Hipster Eugenics: Better Babies for Billionaires
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical-times/hipster-eugenics-better-babies-billionaires
‘Hipster eugenics’: why is the media cosying up to people who want to build a super race?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/20/pro-natalism-babies-global-population-genetics
Gene editing is being sold on the promise of healthier babies — but what are the ethical concerns?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-22/ethics-of-gene-editing-designer-babies/105496228
"The Collinses are prominent figures within the pronatalist movement, which advocates for higher birth rates as a means to address demographic and economic challenges."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_and_Malcolm_Collins
Nazi Ideas about the Aryan Race
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-racism
#eugenics #HipsterEugenics #parenting #parents #DesignerBabies #ART #pronatalism #longtermism #tranhumanism #IQ #FarRight #racification #PhenotypicAppearance #blonde #genetics #CRISPR #PrecisionBreeding #SocialDarwinism #biopolitics #ethics
"The message, stripped down, is the same one plutocrats have always used to justify their privilege: if you’re rich, powerful, and healthy, it’s because you’re 'fit.' If you’re poor, struggling, sick, or broken, well, that’s just nature’s way of weeding out the weak."
#Trump #RFKJr #cruelty #SocialDarwinism #SurvivalofFittest
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"Kennedy — an attorney with no formal medical training — is dressing up an old poison in new clothes and calling it the MAHA movement. It’s not about health, though, not really. It’s about resurrecting the old, toxic doctrine of social Darwinism and giving it a fresh coat of populist paint."
~ Thom Hartmann
#Trump #RFKJr #cruelty #SocialDarwinism #SurvivalofFittest
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https://hartmannreport.com/p/maha-madness-bob-kennedys-cruel-new-0d3
#HumanZoos tells the shocking story of how thousands of #Indigenous peoples were put on public display in #USA in the early decades of the twentieth century.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6Zrol5QEk
Often touted as "missing links" between man and apes, these #NativePeoples were harassed and demeaned. Their #PublicDisplay was arranged with the enthusiastic support of the most elite members of the #ScientificCommunity, and it was promoted uncritically by American's leading newspapers. This award-winning #documentary explores the heartbreaking story of what happened, shows how #AfricanAmerican ministers and other people of faith tried to push back, and reveals how some people today are still drawing on #SocialDarwinism in order to #dehumanize others. The film also explores the tragic story of #eugenics in America, the effort to breed human beings based on #Darwinian principles.
👉 For more about the movie, additional visit the film's website at https://humanzoos.org/.
#USAhistory #Colonialism #HumanCruelty #HumanRights #Racism #NativeAmericans #ColonizerEvils
#Rural #hospitals typically operate on thin profit margins & rely on #Medicaid tax payments to sustain them. Researchers from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for #Health Services Research who examined the House bill concluded it would push more than 300 rural hospitals — many of them in Kentucky, Louisiana, California & Oklahoma — toward service reductions or closure.
#Trump #Republicans #Healthcare #insurance #LowIncome #elderly #disabled #plutocracy #SocialDarwinism #eugenics #imperialism #fascism
States often use the federal money generated through the taxes to pay the institutions more than #Medicaid would otherwise pay. (Medicaid generally pays the lowest fees for care, compared with #Medicare & private #insurance.)
#Hospitals & #NursingHomes say they use these extra Medicaid dollars to expand or add new services & improve #care for all patients.
#Trump #Republicans #Healthcare #medical #LowIncome #elderly #disabled #plutocracy #SocialDarwinism #eugenics #imperialism #fascism
#Health researchers say the policy would have little impact on #employment. Most working-age #Medicaid enrollees who don't receive #disability #benefits already work or are looking for work or are unable to do so because they have a disability, attend school, or care for a family member, according to KFF.
#Trump #Republicans #Healthcare #medical #insurance #LowIncome #elderly #disabled #plutocracy #SocialDarwinism #eugenics #imperialism #fascism
The Reemergence of #SocialDarwinism
The 19th-century doctrine that most closely resembles #Trumpism by #RobertReich #DonaldTrump #NewDeal #USA
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-reemergence-of-social-darwinism
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Like I said, a lot in common with #SocialDarwinism in this respect.
Giving little or no value to "unworthy lives" is very much in line with #Fascism, in particular of the type practiced by the #ThirdReich.
Ad extremis, some important #Longtermists would even go as far as annihilating 3 billion people to achieve the end of making humanity a "multi-planetary species:" 3)
What we are seeing is just the beginning.
#Longtermist Mike #ElonMusk who thinks that even his own trans daughter has lost her value for humanity, as she cannit fulfill her biological destiny anymore, for instance?
In earlier times, what you mention would've been very much in line with #SocialDarwinism, too.
And if you think of #Longtermists' believe of making #humanity a multi-planetary species, that is going to cost hundreds if billions.
We cannot support "suckers."
Said to say, but here we are.
The toxic amalgamation of Christian nationalism with social darwinism at its
crudest:
https://baptistnews.com/article/heres-whos-behind-the-war-on-empathy/
#Empathy #ChristianNationalism #SocialDarwinism #JoeRigney #DougWilson #AllieBethStuckey #GadSaad #ElonMusk
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/usda-cancels-local-food-purchasing-for-schools-food-banks-00222796 Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food from nearby farms through the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program in 2025 has been canceled by Republicans. #fascism #SocialDarwinism #education #nutrition #health #psychology
Same old right wing puritanism dressed up in economic drag - republicans still believe that the elderly, poor, disabled, and under-educated should be left in a gutter to die b/c they're not profitable for corporations.
It's vile & disgusting. This is what christainity and being republican *is* now, and they should both be soundly rejected by every decent person.
They worship mammon.
#Eugenics #HumanRights #ChristianNationalism #SocialDarwinism #MurderForProfit
Modern Eugenics?
The tech elite is quietly reshaping eugenics—not through forced sterilization, but through an ideology where only the most "optimized" deserve to thrive. Social Darwinism is making a comeback, wrapped in the language of innovation. Who decides who belongs in the future? 🧬 #TechEthics #SocialDarwinism #Eugenics
https://medium.com/@ptit.tolier/when-tech-billionaires-reinvent-eugenics-e7cf3fc94909
Victorian times: Skull bumps #Phrenology, face wrinkles #Physiognomy, "bad air" #Miasma, #SocialDarwinism, & #WhiteSupremacy...and we're STILL clinging to some of this nonsense?! Ghosts #Spiritualism & star signs #Astrology too? Seriously? 🤦♀️
@molly0xfff When people like that set out to suppress "ideology", with no reasonable argument as to why its only ideology, what they're saying is that their wealth and power are the only things that should matter and they are tired or dealing with inconvenient facts.
They represent "the natural order" and anything that would elicit disapproval of them is unnatural "ideology".
#SocialDarwinism #nazi #oligarchy
Neoliberalism and Education
The Erosion of Conscience
#LAProgressive #Academia #Education #Neoliberalism #SocialDarwinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGYBSkMe1Ps
A quotation from Carlyle, Thomas:
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In brief, all this Mammon-Gospel, of Supply-and-demand, Competition, Laissez-faire, and Devil take the hindmost, begins to be one of the shabbiest Gospels ever preached on Earth; or altogether the shabbiest.
»
Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/carlyle-thomas/73243/
#quote #quotes #quotation #capitalism #commandments #Gospel #laissezfaire #mercantilism #socialdarwinism #supplyanddemand #economicjustice #freemarket #competition
Why is it the 'social' problems that are chronically ignored or underfunded?
AUKUS and fossil subsidies cost whatever the vultures demanded.
Unless you want to classify parliamentary salaries as 'social' we are being stooged.
Nikole Hannah-Jones: Race has always been ‘a construct to divvy up power’
#BlackMastodon #MAGA #StateRacialization #ClassHierarchy #ClassWarfare #RacialCapitalism #SocialDarwinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4YR6m08fk8
I found this In Our Time episode on Social Darwinism interesting, not least for the depressing revelation that Darwin himself was a Social Darwinist. I thought they could have run more with the point about Marx also being influenced by Social Darwinism but replacing the idea of conflict between individuals with conflict between classes.
