Index 393Simpson,O. J., 303 for socialDarwinism,12–15, 32–34, 40–41,
Sinclair,Upton, 151 54–56, 56–58, 59–61, 133–134, 265–266;
Singer,Peter, 40 proclaimedthe oppositeof socialism,191,
SingularityUniversity, 243 248–250; rejectedby NazieugenicistMartin
Sinsheimer,RobertL., 243 Heidegger,140; supposedlydefeatedby
Sirota,David(journalist), 7 Progressivism,xvii–xix, 81–83, 89, 107–108,
Skousen,Mark(right-wingeconomist),21, 56, 109, 114, 119, 120, 123, 124, 248–250; usedto
59 besmirchfree-marketers,ix–xi, 3–10, 51,
slander.Seedefamation 54–56, 60–61, 120, 123, 124, 140, 188, 252, 254,
slavery:and Christianity,67–69; and hypocrisy 265–266.See alsoBannister,Robert;
of anti-slaveryEnlightenmentphilosophers, compulsorysterilization;eugenics;fascism;
68; and the Enlightenment,65–69; Herbert germlinegeneticengineering;Galton,
Spenceron, 43; in ancienttimes,67–68; Francis;Germanphilosophyof the
opposedby liberalEnlightenment nineteenthcentury;Hitler,Adolf;Hodgson,
philosophy,68–69; practicedby hunter- Geoffrey;Hofstadter,Richard;imperialism;
gatherers,67–68; practicedin Africapriorto Kelly,Alfred;militarism;Mussolini,Benito;
arrivalof Europeans,67–68; practicedin Naziism;Pearson,Karl;Progressives;right
Americaspriorto arrivalof Europeans, wing;scientificracists;robberbarons
67–68; versuscapitalism,xiv (nineteenth-centuryindustrialists);
“smallgovernment” (term):as misleadingterm, Rockefeller,JohnD., Sr.; socialists;survival
311–313 of the fittest;Survivalof the Freest;Western
Smith,Adam:as abolitionist,68; concessionsto mortalityrate;Watson,James;Wilson,E. O.
altruistethics,293; deismof, 56; deridedas SocialDarwinismin AmericanThought(book).See
too selfishby XeroxCEO,293; deridedby Hofstadter,Richard
anthropologistsas socialDarwinist,270; SocialDarwinism:Scienceand Mythin Anglo-
presumedmorallysuperiorto AynRand, 56 AmericanSocialThought(book).SeeBannister,
Smith,DenisMack, 237 Robert
Smith,GeorgeH., 252 SocialDemocratParties:and JosiahWedgwood
Snopes(website), 145 IV, 123; supporteugenics,93, 108; versus
Snyder,Jack,142–143 Nazis,108, 159; versusHitler,108, 159
SocialContracttheory,xv, 177, 301, 332–335 SocialEvolution(book),61–62
“socialDarwinism” (term):and eugenics,x, socialinequality:germlinegeneticengineering
39–40, 51, 59–61, 74–75, 109–110, 123, 124, supposedlyexacerbating,241–244; social
139–140, 250, 250–252, 254, 265–266; and Darwinismsupposedlyabout,40–42.See also
Germany,29, 54–58, 59, 133–135, 139–140, inequality
250–251, 265–266; and racism,x, 54–58, 59, SocialistParty(UnitedStates), 162
116, 140, 250–251, 265–266; and sexism,55, Socialists:assumedto be anti-racism,111;
96–97; applicableto Hitler’s depictionof Jews Britisheugenicistswere,93–94, 122, 123;
as elitistclassistcapitalists,181, 186, 247; as conflatingfascismand Naziism,158–159;
applicationof biologyto socialscience, connectedto Italianfascism,152–154;
40–41, 54–59, 139–140, 265–266; as defending denyingfascistsare left-wing,151, 158–159;
socialinequality,40–42; conservatives eugenicistsamong,88–91, 93–99, 108, 122,
acceptingleft-wingmisconceptionsabout, 123, 134–135; Germaneugenicistswere,108,
7–10, 56–59, 66, 249, 265–266; earlyusesof, 134–135; hatingJewsfor beingcapitalists,
27–28, 120; examplesof this termbeingused 165, 167, 168; imperialismof, 93–94;
to besmirchfree-marketers,x–xi, 51, 54–56, indirectlyinfluenceby Jean-Jacques
59–61, 120, 248–250, 265–266; exposedas Rousseau,328; indirectlyinfluencedby Kant,
strawmanagainstfree-marketers,247–250, 328; indirectlyinfluencedby Romanticist
252–253, 254; labelself-appliedby philosophy,328; in USAadmittingHitlernot
Columbinekillers,250–252; labelself-applied pawnto big business,144; militarismof, 90,
by schoolshooters,250–252; libertarians 93–94, 99; proclaimedto be the oppositeof
acceptingleft-wingmisconceptionsabout, socialDarwinists,191; racismof, 91, 93–94,
7–8, 54, 266; nevera self-appliedtermby 97, 99, 122; supportingminimumwage
nineteenth-centurypersons,27, 29, 250; legislationto priceminoritiesout of labor
nineteenth-centuryindustrializationblamed market,122; versusthe ThirdWay,161–162;