Scientific racism framed genocide as a progressive evolutionary stage

Evidence

Within this mindset, genocide is not a crime; it’s merely a difficult but necessary stage, one blessed (for the believers) by God or (for the rationalists) by Charles Darwin, who wrote in The Descent of Man, “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.” A “great replacement” theory if ever there was one. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 878

Categorization

• XREF: Direct through-line to Klein’s ‘great replacement’ analysis — and echoes the reader’s own scaffolding on how supremacist ideologies reframe violence as progress (per what reader tracks as ‘mirror world metabolizing real grievances’). — connects to: Scientific racism framed lack of Western knowledge as grounds for extermination — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 265
• QUESTION: Klein momentarily collapses Darwin’s actual quoted prediction with today’s ‘great replacement’ conspiracy. Worth chasing: is that a fair equivalence or deliberate rhetorical compression the Mirror World device enables?
• SHARE: The Darwin ‘Great Replacement’ quotation is a sharp, quotable line worth sending to anyone in colonial literature or race theory.