• bioemerl
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    510 months ago

    Dear conservatives.

    If you want eugenics allow people to abort and do generic testing on their kids before they're born. It accomplishes the same thing without the brutal state control and human rights violations.

    • @PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com
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      310 months ago

      It accomplishes the same thing without the brutal state control and human rights violations.

      Well, that's the problem. They can't control people without those two components. It's not really eugenics if it just naturally emerges from individual choices.

    • @Kache@lemm.ee
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      110 months ago

      But that wouldn't satisfy their sense of self righteous vengeance. If you prevent a problem altogether, there'd be nobody to punish for it.

    • @S_H_K@lemmy.fmhy.net
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      310 months ago

      Sometimes was awesome but many times it develved into the wrongest shit of all no wonder it ended up dying.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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    210 months ago

    Huh. Looks like we'll be getting the Eugenics Wars after the Bell Riots in this timeline. Still on track for Irish Unification, too.

    • @agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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      -110 months ago

      Not looking fwd to WWIII though, looks fucking horrifying. I hope I can make it to at least see first contact.

  • @VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca
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    110 months ago

    Something I didn't learn until this week, but James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family (wrote "Dare to Discipline", a book about how we really needed to start hitting kid again in the 70s), was an assistant to a counselor who was a eugenics-loving, racist marriage counselor. Dobson wrote/published materials for Popenoe (the eugenicist counselor) as his assistant. Very few years later, Dobson started writing many of those same ideas as himself, but wrapped up with religion.

    So these young whippersnappers might be trying to bring back eugenics, but that's largely because for the last 50 years, eugenics have been evangelized to many, many (especially Christians) in all but name.

    • @agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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      010 months ago

      Yet another reason to despise that guy. That's an interesting find I was completely unaware of. Sad if anyone is actually taking childrearing advice from the writing of superstitious chumps from more than a millenia ago. Like, gee, we kind of learned a few things since then…

  • MxM111
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    010 months ago

    In 10-20 years, if not sooner, the highest IQ entity is not going to be bio-human. So, what’s the point?

  • matchphoenix
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    10 months ago

    Fashion trends seem to follow a 20 year cycle, and a 30 year cycle, where ‘90s trends are coming back into fashion.

    Fascism trends seem to follow a 90 year cycle, where ‘30s trends are coming back into fashion.

  • Metal Zealot
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    010 months ago

    For some reason my brain associated Eugenics with Dianetics.
    Same kookiness I guess

    • roofuskit
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      010 months ago

      As kooky as it is, I've never seen dianetics end in genocide.

        • roofuskit
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          110 months ago

          Yes, it's toxic and bad. But Eugenics is one of the worst things to ever happen to the world. I just don't want that downplayed at all. People who believe in eugenics literally think they should play God and decide who lives and who dies.

  • @agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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    -110 months ago

    It shouldn't be a surprise the racist right is pushing racist pseudoscience. The right believes in an immutable race hierarchy despite race being a social and not biological construct. In other words believing things without scientific evidence as usual.