Darren Beattie, the State Department’s acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs — a senior role that represents American foreign policy to the world — has repeatedly voiced support for mass sterilization of “low-IQ trash.”
“Population control? If only!” he wrote in May 2024. “Higher quality humans are subsidizing the fertility of lower quality humans.”
In 2023, Beattie questioned why abortion is legal and “well within Overton window of public discourse,” but the “idea of offering feral populations financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.”
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Later that year, he responded to a video of people in an Atlanta neighborhood by calling for a sterilization program.
“When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control,” he wrote. “Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).”
Beattie made another post in March 2021 in favor of promoting better genes, which he suggested again in 2024: “Pay smart people to have more kids, disincentivize stupid people from having kids,” he wrote last year. “So simple but molds destiny on deep intergenerational level.”
He also said far-right conspiracy theories that a grand population-control scheme is already happening aren’t accurate because “all I see is trash multiplying.”
Beattie, a die-hard MAGA ideologue, was once a speechwriter for Trump. He was fired in 2018 after speaking at a conference attended by known white nationalists. A NOTUS review of his writings found that he has often expressed support for repressive policies to combat crime in the United States and frequently praised the Chinese government. His posts about population control and sterilization conflict with Rubio’s long-standing opposition to such programs in other countries. Rubio has called China’s former one-child policy a “grotesque violation of basic human rights.”
Beattie’s descriptions of human beings as “trash” also conflict with Rubio’s comments to State Department employees after the Senate confirmed him unanimously last month.
“All men are created equal, because our rights come from God our Creator,” Rubio said. During his confirmation hearing, Rubio also called the people of the world “God’s children.”
Beattie has repeatedly disparaged different populations, and his posts often focus on race.
In September 2023, he responded to news about migrants from Africa who rioted in Israel by suggesting that the Israeli government “literally just round them up and drop them in the ocean.”
“Let the ‘human rights groups’ whine... drop them in the ocean too!” he wrote.
It isn’t “politically correct to say, but low-iq, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties,” he wrote in another social media post. “They require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society. Instead of anarcho-tyranny, we need Singapore for the dumb and violent, and Sweden for the more elevated.”
In April 2023, he responded that “birth quality matters too,” after tech billionaire Elon Musk mentioned declining birth rates.
Rubio has demurred when asked about Beattie’s many social media posts, including praise for Jan. 6 rioters. He told reporters last week that Beattie was selected by the Trump transition team and he was focused on fighting censorship in his new role.
The State Department did not respond to a request for comment from NOTUS on Monday about Beattie’s remarks in favor of population control.
Beattie has also lamented the “prevalence of fight videos — third world low iq sucker punch fights over nothing, with dumb animal spectators jumping up and down in excitement.”
“The same low-IQ trash who watch the fast and furious franchise,” he added. “Beginning to wish the whole population reduction conspiracy were true.”
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Haley Byrd Wilt is a reporter at NOTUS.