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Leadership

Health & Healing

The Intrinsic Racism of the

Population Control Movement

By Brian Clowes, PhD| August 17, 2018| https://www.hli.org/

ne of the most prom- The Racism behind Popula- Asian menacing the “civilized”
inent motivations of tion Control white world.[1] Two years later,
the population control Lothrop Stoddard and other eu- he published The Revolt against
Omovement is racism, genicists of the 1920s feared that Civilization: The Menace of the
which has diminished over time the white race was not producing Under Man, which featured an even
but has not disappeared. During enough children to keep up with the more offensive cover: A mob of
the early history of the movement, “colored” races. Molotov-cocktail throwing Africans
this racist and eugenicist ideology portrayed as hairy apes.
was undisguised and was led by Stoddard wrote his racist classic The
“progressive” intellectuals, just as Rising Tide of Color against White Stoddard became very popular
prestigious “progressive” academics World-Supremacy in 1920. This because of his views. One of his
and celebrities lead the movement book’s cover featured a spear-car- rewards was a position on the Board
today. rying African and a knife-wielding of Directors of the American Birth

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