The xenophobic "Yellow Peril" expression became popular to justify racism against Asians.
He also argued that the book was part of a campaign to justify racism and against welfare and immigration.
People wanting to justify racism claimed that certain groups, such as black people, were inferior.
Don't these people have the right to protect what little they have ((that does not justify racism or violence)?
Later critics charged that determinism served to justify racism and imperialism.
This comment isn't meant to justify racism, but overseas Chinese communities often fail to mention the blatant racism their relatives exhibit at home.
However, people wanting to justify racism claimed that black people were inferior.
Nancy Krieger contended that much modern research supported the assumptions needed to justify racism.
Mr. Glanton said the judge's decision "sounded like the same arguments that were used to justify racism in the South."
But some of those who led the eugenics movement used it to justify racism and prejudice.