Telegony

While Dumpster-diving into alt-right sites on the Internet, I came across the concept of "telegony." The word appears to be derived from the name of Odysseus's son, Telegonus. According to Wikipedia:

The idea of telegony goes back to Aristotle. It implies that the signs of the individual, not only inherited from his parents, but also from other males, from which his/her mother had a previous pregnancy [sic; that's ungrammatical].

Wikipedia goes on to say:

... the myth of telegony is fundamentally incompatible with our knowledge of genetics and the reproductive process. Encyclopedia Britannica stated "All these beliefs, from inheritance of acquired traits to telegony, must now be classed as superstitions."

Nevertheless, telegony influenced late 19th-century racialist discourse: a woman who had once had a child with a non-Aryan man, it was argued, could never have a "pure" Aryan child again. This idea was adopted by some Nazis for propaganda purposes.

And now it's being adopted by some alt-rights for propaganda purposes. The stuff I've read is much too vile for me to reproduce here. This campaign is going to get even uglier, folks.

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Oh, by the way, the alt-rights have adopted new slang terms so they can avoid having their rants blocked by online filters. Muslims are "Skittles," as used in Donald Trump Jr.'s tweet about a few Skittles among many being poison; Mexicans are "Yahoos"; Chinese people are "Bings"; Jews are "Skypes"; African-Americans are "Googles."