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social Darwinism

[soh-shuhl dahr-wuh-niz-uhm] / ˈsoʊ ʃəl ˈdɑr wəˌnɪz əm /


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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

This set of concepts came to be known as Social Darwinism.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

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