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.

XREF: Connects to the modern 'great replacement' theory and historical racist ideology—shows how Darwin's words were weaponized long before contemporary conspiracy theories. QUESTION: Worth investigating the full context of Darwin's passage to understand whether he meant it descriptively or prescriptively, and how later eugenicists repurposed it.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 878