Modern Day Bias: How Scientific Racism Influences Us Today With the new presidential campaigns underway, it appears that all people can talk about is the candidates different policies and their own opinions on the matter. Some of the most controversial political arguments that are occurring are ones that include race such as immigration and the Syrian refugees. Even though many people have their beliefs on certain topics without a lot of evidence, some use modern day scientific racism to help prove their point and further their agenda . While scientific racism seems like a topic of the past and is controversial, it is being used to strengthen the arguments of certain political views. Scientific racism is the use of scientific techniques
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Nazi Germany, as mentioned previously, used scientific racism to instill the idea that the Aryan race was vastly superior to any other. Using this “fact”, Germany was manipulated into starting a war that would allow them, “the master race”, to control the world and all the inferior people within it, as well as ridding the world of the worst race and the cause of all their problems, the Jews. Scientific racism was also used in the United States for many decades to protect the legalization of slavery. Citing “scientific truths” that stem form imperialistic times, many pro-slavery politicians said that African American are fit for being of use to the white slave owners due to their more animalistic strength and inadequate for being free of slavery due to their lack of competence which would cause them to fail in the world without the slave master taking care of their …show more content…
Similarly to Nazi Germany and the past slavery supporters, politicians fund “think tanks”, institutions funded by advocacy groups, to help get “scientifically proven facts” to help straighten their argument. More often than not, the research done by these think tanks are biased and favor the view of the group funding the research. These days we see the argument of biological determinism which is how biology dictates how certain races behave as opposed to others. An example of biological determinism and scientific racism being used to assist the validity of a policy is in immigration. Recently, political analyst Jason Richwine proposed a plan to have all immigrants that seek residence in the United States to take an IQ test and see if their scores qualify them to be able to live here. While it may seem like a decent idea, the reason behind it is less than such. The plan, according to Richwine, would assist in keeping Mexicans out of the country because it is “proven” that Latinos are permanently less intelligent than other races due to biology. This idea has been extremely controversial due to its racist basis and obvious use of scientific racism against the Mexican people. Another form of biological determinism and scientific racism seen in US politics today is seen in the work of journalist Nicholas
Nazi Germany, as mentioned previously, used scientific racism to instill the idea that the Aryan race was vastly superior to any other. Using this “fact”, Germany was manipulated into starting a war that would allow them, “the master race”, to control the world and all the inferior people within it, as well as ridding the world of the worst race and the cause of all their problems, the Jews. Scientific racism was also used in the United States for many decades to protect the legalization of slavery. Citing “scientific truths” that stem form imperialistic times, many pro-slavery politicians said that African American are fit for being of use to the white slave owners due to their more animalistic strength and inadequate for being free of slavery due to their lack of competence which would cause them to fail in the world without the slave master taking care of their …show more content…
Similarly to Nazi Germany and the past slavery supporters, politicians fund “think tanks”, institutions funded by advocacy groups, to help get “scientifically proven facts” to help straighten their argument. More often than not, the research done by these think tanks are biased and favor the view of the group funding the research. These days we see the argument of biological determinism which is how biology dictates how certain races behave as opposed to others. An example of biological determinism and scientific racism being used to assist the validity of a policy is in immigration. Recently, political analyst Jason Richwine proposed a plan to have all immigrants that seek residence in the United States to take an IQ test and see if their scores qualify them to be able to live here. While it may seem like a decent idea, the reason behind it is less than such. The plan, according to Richwine, would assist in keeping Mexicans out of the country because it is “proven” that Latinos are permanently less intelligent than other races due to biology. This idea has been extremely controversial due to its racist basis and obvious use of scientific racism against the Mexican people. Another form of biological determinism and scientific racism seen in US politics today is seen in the work of journalist Nicholas