优生学的恶臭持续弥漫在唐纳德·特朗普的政府中。《堡垒》杂志的一份新报告敲响了警钟，曝光了北卡罗来纳州联邦检察官埃利斯·博伊尔在与保守派网红卡西·克拉克探讨犯罪问题时发表的令人不安言论。该媒体报道了博伊尔关于将拥有“坏”基因库的人从社会中清除出去的评论：“我观察到的是，你知道——我突然想到，这不是个新想法；我听别人这么说过。我开始留意观察——如果你留心看，你会发现：5%的人口制造了90%的犯罪。”
The stench of eugenics continues to waft through Donald Trump’s administration. A new report from The Bulwark sounds the alarm on disturbing remarks made by Ellis Boyle, a North Carolina-based U.S. attorney, during a discussion about crime with conservative influencer Cassie Clark. The outlet reported on Boyle’s comments about removing people with “bad” gene pools from society: “What I’ve observed is, you know — it occurs to me, and this is not a new thought; I heard someone else say it. And I started looking — and if you look, you see it: 5% of the population cause 90% of the crime.”
博伊尔继续说道：“我认为这里有很大一个因素——如果你把那5%坏的人口清除出去，从社会中移除他们，这样他们就不会制造混乱，也不会生出拥有更多坏‘基因库’的婴儿，那么我认为，两代人、也许三代人之后，想想这人口会有多美好。但这需要意志力。”
And Boyle kept going: “I think there’s a big component — if you took out [the] 5% of the population that’s bad and removed them from society, so they don’t create mayhem and create, you know, babies with the gene pool of more bad, then I think, in two, maybe three generations, think of how great this population would be. But that’s something that takes willpower.”
针对针对博伊尔的抨击，克拉克试图为他辩护，在X平台上写道：“把持续伤害其他所有人的人从自由社会中移除，这叫监禁。……这绝不是优生学。”然而，博伊尔主张将人从社会中移除以限制他们所谓的坏“基因库”——这绝对是优生学的一个核心信条。博伊尔的办公室未立即回应《MS NOW》的置评请求。
In response to the backlash against Boyle, Clark attempted to defend him from criticism, writing on X: “Removing the people who keep hurting everybody else from free society is called incarceration. … What it is not is eugenics.”Yet Boyle advocated for removing people from society to limit their supposedly bad “gene pool” — which is absolutely a key tenet of eugenics. Boyle’s office didn’t immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment.
特朗普关于部分移民拥有“劣质基因”导致其倾向犯罪的偏见且无根据的言论，呼应了教科书式优生学家的论调，暗示美国的祸患可以通过改变国家的基因构成来解决。
Trump’s bigoted and baseless remarks about some immigrants having “bad genes” that make them prone to criminality have echoed textbook eugenicists by suggesting that America’s woes could be addressed by altering the nation’s genetic makeup.
这位总统和共和党最大金主埃隆·马斯克养成了一种习惯，贩卖这种种族主义伪科学——他们周围的其他人也是如此。
The president and Elon Musk, the Republican Party’s biggest donor, have made a habit of trafficking in this kind of racist pseudoscience — and so have others in their orbit.
去年底，我曾撰文指出，与马斯克有关联的一众硅谷“科技男”出现在爱泼斯坦档案中，邮件显示他们曾讨论优生学。另一位鼓吹种族主义伪科学的知名人士、卫生与公众服务部部长小罗伯特·肯尼迪，也被批评者指责利用国家最高卫生机构支持优生学意识形态。顶尖传染病专家德米特雷·达斯卡利斯在辞去疾病控制与预防中心职务的信中表示，优生学“在肯尼迪机构产出的言论中占据显要地位”。
Late last year, I wrote about about people with ties to Musk and a bunch of other Silicon Valley tech bros appearing in the Epstein files, with emails showing that they discussed eugenics. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another prominent voice of racist pseudoscience, has been accused by critics of using the nation’s top health agency to support eugenics ideology as well. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a top infectious disease expert, said in his resignation letter from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that eugenics “plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated” at Kennedy’s agency.
“让美国再次伟大”运动的成员，往往对人们拿他们与纳粹、三K党等团体作历史准确类比感到愤慨。除了该运动屡曝纳粹丑闻外，停止宣扬优生学肯定会让那些类比显得不那么贴切。
Members of the MAGA movement routinely take umbrage at people making historically accurate comparisons between them and groups like the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. Aside from the movement’s numerous Nazi scandals, ceasing to promote eugenics would certainly make those comparisons seem less apt.