as in segregation
the practice of controlling which people become parents in an attempt to improve the genetic composition of the human race
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segregation
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Roy’s Taxi Entrepreneurial opportunities for providing private transportation services in Austin have been shaped largely by segregation, regulation and innovation.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
29 July 2025 -
The problems to surmount were structural: deindustrialization, entrenched segregation, economic marginalization—conditions shaped by Jim Crow, but not undone by its eclipse.—
Idrees Kahloon,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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“Eugenics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eugenics. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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