racial hygiene
Discredited hereditary purification
Racial hygiene is a pseudoscientific term from the late 19th and early 20th centuries for eugenics programs aimed at "improving" human populations through selective breeding, sterilization, or elimination of those deemed unfit.
The term is most associated with Nazi Germany, where racial hygiene provided ideological cover for forced sterilizations and genocide.
Now used only historically or critically.
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- AryanIndo-European linguistic ancestor
- blood purityUnmixed ancestral heritage
- pure bloodUnmingled hereditary descent
Holocaust · sterilization · ethnic cleansing · pseudoscience · concentration camp · Nazi Germany · Third Reich · Nazi ideology · selective breeding · white supremacy · deportation · mass murder · pogrom · final solution · death camps · internment · Nuremberg Laws · gas chambers
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, repression, secret police, torture
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
- criminologycrime, criminology, criminal behavior, criminologist, criminalization
- WWII AtrocitiesHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, death camps, gas chambers
racial hygieneevidence-based medicine
Clinical care guided by research
scientific method · bioethics · medical ethics · epidemiology
racial hygienehuman rights
Inalienable personal freedoms
civil rights · anti-racism · reproductive freedom · egalitarianism · bodily autonomy
racial hygieneracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
multiculturalism · pluralism · racial integration · integration · diversity
race, racism, racing, hygiene, races, racist, racer, racial, raced