Livre d'Or

Eugenics is more than just racism. It's always, always antisemitic as well. And it's actively dangerous to other groups of people who are regarded as racially impure, particularly trans and disabled people. Regardless of whether a person's disability or trans identity is in any way genetic, once you have internalized the idea of a master race, people who strongly differ from the constructed ideal are seen as threatening. I realize this is controversial because it's dogma that racism doesn't harm white people.

Putting the trans and disabled question to one side, I feel like this is only controversial if you don't understand that Jews, Poles, Slavs, Roma and others can be constructed as racially "other." Certainly there's a strand of racial thinking particularly popular in America at the moment that sees Jews as uber-white exemplar Europeans (which I would argue is also antisemitic). But if it's really controversial to say that eugenics led to, not just discrimination and violence, but genocide against European Jews, then honestly I despair of humanity.