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S1E3 Freakshow: Fueling the Fire of "Scientific" Racism
Season 3, Episode 3
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30-Sep-2022
The demeaning exploitation of people as sideshow freaks helped propagate a much more insidious belief which gained steam and became normalized in Western society—the belief in scientific racism. Darwin’s publications catalyzed scientific racism into mainstream acceptance, justifying the belief that some people were less human while others were superior—higher on the evolutionary ladder than some more primitive and less developed races. The result was the eugenics movement and resultant horrors of the Holocaust and other genocides.
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