HuffPo: This May Be The Most Horrible Thing That Donald Trump Believes (eugenics)

[highplainsdem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eugenics_us_57ec4cc2e4b024a52d2cc7f9?section=&

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offered a litany of racist comments, which it turns out may be rooted in his deeper belief in the inherent superiority of some people ― and not others.

The Frontline documentary “The Choice,” which premiered this week on PBS, reveals that Trump agrees with the dangerous and abusive theory of eugenics.

Trump’s father instilled in him the idea that their family’s success was genetic, according to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio.

“The family subscribes to a racehorse theory of human development,” D’Antonio says in the documentary. “They believe that there are superior people and that if you put together the genes of a superior woman and a superior man, you get a superior offspring.”

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That Huffington Post page has a compilation of clips showing Trump's beliefs.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Yes....I saw that in the documentary....

and it was chilling! Basically that's what White Nationalists believe......i.e., racists!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Ohhhhhh master race

How, what's the word, oh yeah.... nazi.

Looks like something went a bit awry with Donald's genes

[Zo Zig]

3. Aryans?

WTF, Nazi's.

[The Genealogist]

4. I'm going to guess most of his minions believe the same thing n/t

[colsohlibgal]

5. Not The First Repub Down With That

Poppy Bush and dad Prescott spent time within that idea years ago.

[radius777]

6. Trump is an alt-right/neo-nazi/white nationalist

and a belief in biological determinism is fundamental to their worldview: there is nothing that can be done to help the inferior, they are parasites, they must be excluded and/or eliminated. Multiculturalism and civil rights are merely schemes invented by Jews (and other elites) to destroy the naturally superior race, whose righteous place is ruler/owner of the world.

This is what distinguishes their type of bigotry from standard conservative bigotry, which tends to see things like 'liberal hollywood' and 'big government' as the cause for the plight of the oppressed, iow things that are more social and political than biological.

[duncang]

7. I mentioned his idea of "good" genes a few times here

Now just wondering if this will actually make it out to the tv news. If they check him they may find a undiscovered pair in the human chromosome the crazy asshole con gene.

[applegrove]

8. Eugenics is so 1920s. We've done a lot of thinking since then in the

world. And many genocides. Maybe if Trump could read a book from the last 50 years ...