“Civilisation is going to pieces … if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.” Sentiments like this will be familiar to those who lurk in the less wholesome corners of the internet, where racism and other bigotries flourish.
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[A]s shown in a new investigation by the Guardian and partners, … these views are creeping back into the mainstream, fuelled by the concerted efforts of international networks of activists – and American tech money. What we are witnessing is a coordinated renaissance in eugenics and race science. One of these new race scientists, Emil Kirkegaard [for example], leads a group that claims to have access to the sensitive health information of half a million British volunteers.
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Despite the thorough debunking of race science by contemporary genetics and the growing acceptance of our multiracial and multicultural reality, the Guardian reporting shows that such thinking has not been extinguished…. The plan appears to be to infiltrate the mainstream and normalise views that historians and scientists have long debunked.
