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What's the historical context? Like is Nazi Germany copying the restrictions put on after WW1?
The Nazis praised the US's "scientific" approach to racism and eugenics.
Measuring people's heads; IQ tests served in a person's non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people "dangerous", "criminals" with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)
Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic "we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion".
A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they're coming right back around.
This is an educated meme.
Hitler sent a certain Dr Mengele to study at the Carnegie Institution to learn about the 'Nordic Race'.
Why is it always the philanthropists?
they become philanthropists to assuage their guilt?
That is giving them too much credit.
It is no more than a cover for doing more horrible things.