Topic: Charles Davenport

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American Eugenics and the "One Drop Rule"

The segment explains how eugenics ideas were imported to the U.S. in the early 1900s by figures like Charles Davenport and Harry Laughlin to create a "white master Nordic race." This led to the "one drop rule" to protect the "political fence" of whiteness. The hosts emphasize that Hitler actually got his eugenics ideas from the United States, not the other way around.