social Darwinism
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Social Darwinism was a bad idea in the 1900s.
From Salon • May 27, 2025
As California Supreme Court Justice Loren Miller explained in a 1966 book, the ruling “smuggled Social Darwinism into the Constitution.”
From Scientific American • Aug. 19, 2020
Since when has Liberty University embraced the teaching of Social Darwinism in Ethics 101?
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2020
Fascists drew upon Social Darwinism and its French alternative, Lamarckianism; collective psychology; social biology; the science of crowds; and studies of myths.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2017
It's like some horribly twisted form of Social Darwinism.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
