It brings up memories of other movements, backed by influential scientists, that gained widespread political appeal. Specifically, eugenics. Long before the term was associated with the Nazis, there were sincere eugenics movements in the United States that sought to improve the gene pool. There were laws on the books that provided for forced sterilization of the “unfit”. It just so happened that the victims of these policies were poor and/or minorities.
Since then, there’s always been a segment of the mainstream predisposed to distrust any talk of “improving” the population through scientific means. Any discussion of that topic will thus raise the Blue/Green specter.
It brings up memories of other movements, backed by influential scientists, that gained widespread political appeal. Specifically, eugenics. Long before the term was associated with the Nazis, there were sincere eugenics movements in the United States that sought to improve the gene pool. There were laws on the books that provided for forced sterilization of the “unfit”. It just so happened that the victims of these policies were poor and/or minorities.
Since then, there’s always been a segment of the mainstream predisposed to distrust any talk of “improving” the population through scientific means. Any discussion of that topic will thus raise the Blue/Green specter.