Obama & Social Darwinism

For a recent article (“What Does Social Darwinism Mean to [President Barack] Obama?,” the anonymous author asked a Kathleen Hall Jamieson forclarificationof “Social Darwinism”: She says most people are familiar with Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution by natural selection—survival of the fittest. But Jamieson, a political communication authority at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Center, explains that social Darwinism is a concept, an extension of Darwinism, that essentially says that those who are innately superior, often biologically superior, are advantaged in the conflict among or between groups.

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