Jared Taylor: We’re All Eugenicists Now

We’re all eugenicists now. pic.twitter.com/iGwGzore7T

— American Renaissance (@realAmRen) April 10, 2025

I have mixed feelings about this.

Eugenics is one of the few issues where I have changed my mind.

In my youth, I was very supportive of eugenics and bought a bunch of books about the subject. This was long before I was married and had my own children and became a Christian. I remain supportive of positive eugenics, which is compatible with Christianity, and which is just encouraging people of good stock to be more mindful when choosing their mates and encouraging them to have larger families.

You could even say that I still support negative eugenics to some degree. I think we should restore anti-miscegenation laws and the taboo on race mixing. I think our immigration laws should be much more selective. We used to have immigration laws that screened out people with hereditary diseases, with low-IQs and who come from undesirable parts of the Third World and even Europe. We ought to change the tax code to discourage barren spinsters and perpetual bachelors. The welfare state, which puts the burden of taxation on the fit while subsidizing the unfit, is another area that ought to be reformed.

We have “NS” to thank for discrediting the whole concept of eugenics and the baby being thrown out with the bathwater. I’m referring to things like the T4 program and euthanasia, the Lebensborn program, genocide (whether or not the Holocaust happened is irrelevant because most people believe it did and that had major consequences), Nazi racial theories about the inferiority of Slavs, etc. In America, we also jumped the gun in the early days of genetics and went a little crazy with sterilizing too many poor people who were labeled feebleminded morons. This stoked a huge backlash against negative eugenics.

I’m also uneasy with modern negative eugenics. I don’t like IVF and embryo selection. I find the idea of creating children out of stem cells horrifying. I’m also skeptical of looking at our children like yields of corn or domesticated farm animals. Do we also really want to further torture the parents and children who compete to get into the best schools? Should childhood be a rat race about building a resume? Are we going to up the ante by having the children themselves be engineered in the test tube? Do we want to live in a culture where you are judged as having failed at life in the embryonic stage of development?

My view is of this is that I will settle for immigration restriction, restoring anti-miscegenation laws, restoring harmony between the sexes, reducing the number of spinsters and incels and encouraging larger White families. Right now, too many White people are failing to even have children, and non-Whites are exploding in numbers all around this. We don’t have the time to think about a handful of designer babies who will certainly be too few in number to reverse our demographic decline.

Note: The thawing of the taboo on eugenics is another example of how we in a period of rapid cultural change.