The NXR Podcast - October 10, 2026


The Science of Race Was Buried At Nuremberg

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Charles Darwin Gregor Mendel Oliver Wendell Holmes John Maynard Keynes Harry H. Laughlin Winston Churchill Robert Spencer Francis Galton Alfred Plotz Carl Korens Joe Biden Greeks Slavs Buck
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00:00:00.000 Today we'll be exploring how race went from being everything to being absolutely nothing in just a 0.84
00:00:06.340 few short decades. We'll be talking about the post-war consensus and the effects it had on the
00:00:13.300 West view of race. You're listening currently to part three of a comprehensive seven-part series
00:00:20.640 on the subject of race, both from a biblical and biological perspective. All seven parts of this
00:00:28.220 series come from the prolegomena to my latest book titled White Genocide. If you'd like to
00:00:34.800 listen to the full audio version of White Genocide, you can do so by going to your favorite app store
00:00:40.320 and searching for the NXR Plus app. And now let's begin. What we are about to espouse has fallen
00:00:47.640 into disrepute in the last century, and in fairness to the opponents of what we term
00:00:52.540 race realism, much of their resistance arises from a two-century cycle of continuous overcorrection
00:01:00.460 with real grievances. The Enlightenment, though far from monolithic, at the very least clearly
00:01:07.880 loosened scientific inquiry from direct control by the Roman Catholic Church. Once no longer bound
00:01:14.980 by ecclesiastical dogma, many thinkers began to imagine a world governed by reason alone,
00:01:21.180 with nature spread out before them as an open field of investigation
00:01:25.480 rather than a closed theological system.
00:01:30.140 Charles Darwin's work on the origin of species introduced a startling possibility.
00:01:35.960 What if man was not the direct product of a specific creative act by God,
00:01:40.800 but instead the product of time and contingency?
00:01:44.380 On this account, his traits, his rationality,
00:01:48.200 and eventually even his humanity itself, could be traced to the long interaction of matter,
00:01:56.000 proteins, and electrical impulses, with chance woven through the whole process.
00:02:02.440 Perhaps man was not such a mystery after all, but an object of scientific inquiry no different
00:02:08.460 in principle from caves, fossils, or coral reefs. Within this Enlightenment frame,
00:02:15.400 nature became an autonomous object of study, to be explained by mechanism and law,
00:02:21.760 rather than by divine purpose or telos. Darwin's theories themselves were not
00:02:28.080 straightforward race science. Natural selection describes differential reproduction under
00:02:33.800 environmental pressures at the level of populations. It is a scientific account of
00:02:39.120 how traits spread, not a cohesive moral or ethical system. The deterministic move came
00:02:45.540 largely from later interpreters and adapters of Darwin's ideas, rather than from his core logic.
00:02:52.560 Herbert Spencer, who coined the phrase, survival of the fittest, reframed selection as a social
00:02:59.200 and moral law that seemed to justify hierarchy and laissez-faire politics. If nature favors the
00:03:06.320 fittest, why not help it along? Darwin's cousin, Francis Galton, then developed modern eugenics, 0.96
00:03:14.420 arguing in works like Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development, that talent, character,
00:03:21.140 and worth were largely fixed by hereditary inheritance and could be improved by selective
00:03:27.520 breeding. Galton used statistical tools, such as correlation and regression, to quantify how traits
00:03:34.840 run in families, showing, for example, that adult height clusters predictably around parental
00:03:40.760 averages. Many of his broader social conclusions were overstated, but he helped establish that
00:03:47.600 at least some human traits follow measurable patterns of inheritance.
00:03:52.740 The major breakthrough that hardened these speculations into genetic and racial dogma
00:03:57.660 came with Mendel's laws. Galton could describe inheritance and estimate its strength,
00:04:04.160 but he lacked a mechanism for how traits were actually transmitted.
00:04:09.080 That gap began to close in 1900,
00:04:12.400 when Hugo de Vries, Carl Korens, and Eric von Schermach
00:04:16.780 independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel's work on pea plants,
00:04:21.400 which showed that inheritance operates through discrete, heritable factors,
00:04:26.340 what we later called genes, that were passed down in predictable ratios.
00:04:30.800 Mendel's factors worked clearly for simple, single-gene traits
00:04:35.880 For example, the color of a pea or the texture of its skin
00:04:40.300 But in the decades that followed, lawmakers, statesmen, and churchmen
00:04:45.540 In the rapidly growing United States
00:04:47.840 Seized on this mechanism and applied it to intelligence
00:04:51.400 Feeble-mindedness, criminality, pauperism
00:04:55.380 Even vague moral failings like shiftlessness
00:04:58.900 that were recast as single recessive units.
00:05:02.740 These conditions could, in theory,
00:05:05.060 be bred out of a population
00:05:06.680 if the right tools were applied. 0.99
00:05:10.020 This fusion is what gave eugenics its teeth. 0.84
00:05:13.360 Galton had sketched the concept.
00:05:15.460 Mendel appeared to supply the mechanism.
00:05:18.120 Eugenicists, and for a time,
00:05:20.660 large swaths of respectable opinion,
00:05:23.540 believed they finally possessed the tools
00:05:26.160 to read human worth as biological destiny and to act on it.
00:05:31.500 In the United States and Britain,
00:05:33.620 figures as varied as Winston Churchill, John Maynard Keynes,
00:05:37.520 and leading progressive reformers and Fabian socialists
00:05:40.760 expressed sympathy for some form of eugenic policy,
00:05:44.760 seeing it as a scientific way to improve the population.
00:05:49.040 The dogma spread because it could be all things to all people,
00:05:52.800 A justification for welfare reform, immigration restriction, sterilization laws, or better breeding campaigns, all wrapped in the authority and vocabulary of modern genetics.
00:06:05.860 International eugenics congresses met in London in 1912 and in New York in 1921 and 1932,
00:06:15.980 drawing together scientists, politicians, and social leaders from across Europe and
00:06:21.260 the United States to coordinate research and policy proposals.
00:06:26.460 Germany developed a vigorous racial hygiene movement, institutionalized in organizations
00:06:31.920 like the German Society for Racial Hygiene under Alfred Plotz, and others, which sought to promote
00:06:39.180 selective reproduction and sterilization in the name of national health. Scandinavian countries
00:06:46.000 built state eugenics apparatuses that would eventually sterilize tens of thousands of people
00:06:51.460 deemed unfit, often well into the mid-20th century. France, Italy, and much of Latin America tended
00:06:59.200 towards softer eugenic programs that emphasized maternal and infant health, public hygiene,
00:07:05.820 and population robustness rather than mass sterilization, but they drew on the same
00:07:11.320 hereditary assumptions. Across these diverse national expressions, the underlying logic
00:07:17.520 remained constant. A people's biological quality was thought to be measurable, heritable,
00:07:24.140 and therefore a legitimate object of direct state management.
00:07:29.380 In 1907, Indiana passed the first compulsory sterilization law in the United States, 1.00
00:07:36.400 targeting people labeled confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles, and rapists in state institutions. 0.98
00:07:44.880 In the decades that followed, more than 30 states enacted similar statutes, 1.00
00:07:49.980 and over 50,000 people were sterilized under eugenic laws.
00:07:54.140 In Buck v. Bell, 1927, the Supreme Court upheld forced sterilization.
00:08:01.380 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. concluded his opinion with the notorious line, 0.99
00:08:07.080 Three generations of imbeciles are enough. 0.96
00:08:10.740 Race science also helped tighten federal immigration policy in the Johnson-Reed Immigration Act of 1924, 0.99
00:08:18.040 which established national origins quotas that sharply curtailed immigration from southern and eastern Europe,
00:08:25.560 especially Italians, Poles, Jews, Greeks, and Slavs.
00:08:31.820 Testifying before Congress in support of restriction, Harry H. Laughlin of the Eugenics Record Office,
00:08:38.260 serving as the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization's official expert eugenics agent,
00:08:43.720 supplied data purporting to show the hereditary inferiority
00:08:48.800 and high rates of defective persons among targeted immigrant groups. 0.71
00:08:54.920 The backlash against the deterministic, materialistic excesses of the early 20th century
00:09:01.140 needs little introduction.
00:09:03.960 The Third German Reich wrote eugenic principles directly into law
00:09:08.080 and applied them on a scale never before seen, 0.87
00:09:11.420 sterilizing, euthanizing, and aborting hundreds of thousands of citizens it labeled defective.
00:09:18.620 In the aftermath of Nuremberg, acceptance, non-judgment, and inclusivity became watchwords
00:09:25.960 of the new era, and reversals in the decades that followed of earlier immigration policies,
00:09:31.660 bans on miscegenation, compulsory sterilization statutes, and older cultural norms
00:09:38.300 gradually hardened this new dogma into law.
00:09:42.820 These social customs were intended to forestall the fierce nativism and nationalism
00:09:47.860 that seemed to be to blame for two world wars.
00:09:51.720 At its peak and logical conclusion, 0.75
00:09:55.560 Joe Biden's presidency imported millions of illegal immigrants
00:09:59.660 and legal immigrants through its expanded work visa programs.
00:10:05.200 Likewise, in the UK, the proportion of the foreign-born population rose sharply from
00:10:11.240 the late 1990s into the early 2000s.
00:10:15.520 If people are interchangeable and race is a social construct, then quantity and economics
00:10:21.420 matter, not quality. 0.97
00:10:23.140 The result was a generation coming face-to-face with races and people that rapidly displaced 0.97
00:10:29.580 Native Americans and Britons in the workforce, housing market, politics, and even religion. 0.99
00:10:36.500 In the face of sustained encounters with the unfamiliar, foreign, and strange, the average
00:10:42.180 American began to re-examine earlier assumptions about racial differences. In the early 1900s,
00:10:48.940 race, heredity, and stock were treated as everything. By the end of the century,
00:10:54.840 they were treated as nothing. Individuals were to be judged strictly as individuals.
00:11:02.040 And the prevailing instinct, whether or not anyone used the term, was that race was a social
00:11:08.100 construction, a pile of pseudoscience resting on thin, arbitrary differences in skin color. 0.64
00:11:15.300 Yet as black men randomly assaulted thousands of Asian women during the height of COVID, 0.69
00:11:20.200 as Indian tech workers pushed out their white counterparts 0.93
00:11:24.360 and hired other Indians from the same caste.
00:11:27.520 And as Jews rallied around fellow Jews in the wake of October 7,
00:11:31.940 the more perceptive American began to suspect that perhaps there was more to the story.
00:11:37.980 Perhaps race and ethnicity are meaningful categories
00:11:42.000 that make sense of loyalties, affinities, and conflict even today.