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He emphasizes that early eugenics was explicitly Anglo-Saxonist, promoting a racial hierarchy that valued certain elite white populations over others, often targeted at the disabled, the poor, and racial minorities. Today, the language has shifted towards euphemisms, and explicit racial or racialist rhetoric is often avoided, but Corbett argues that the underlying logic persists—just cloaked in politically correct language.
He notes that the eugenics movement has evolved into modern ideas of population control, with new “scientific” justifications rooted in concerns about overpopulation or environmental sustainability—such as the climate change narrative and technocracy—shifting focus from explicit race-based theories to broader, more inclusive control mechanisms.