Many white racialists are eugenics enthusiasts. But despite a shared, underlying genetic and hereditarian orientation, there is less of a connection between these two ideas than meets the eye. Certainly, eugenics and white racialism are not coextensive. The two ideas can even be squarely at odds.
It is indeed true that eugenics and “racism” (pro-white views) have been inextricably linked together in post-WWII myth and dogma. Political Correctness decrees: “Eugenics is bad. Evil White People advocate eugenics. Nazis advocated eugenics. Eugenicists are Nazis.”
Here, for example, is Microsoft’s Encarta World English Dictionary‘s complete definition of the term: “Selective breeding as proposed human improvement: the proposed improvement of the human species by encouraging or permitting reproduction of only those individuals with genetic characteristics judged desirable. It has been regarded with disfavor since the Nazi period.”
Eugenics Contra Race
However, eugenics does not necessarily advance white racial interests. In the wrong hands, it can even destroy a race. Eugenics is fundamentally an ideology of (supposed) human and social betterment through genetics, heredity, and rationally-planned reproduction.