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[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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 31 points 1 year 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.

[–] Lexam@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ew yeah. I hate generic kids.

[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Axiom: Once you’ve met a Noah or Emma, you don’t need to meet another.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But I want to meet Emma Watson...

Actually, I don't. I'll be so cringy, onlookers will die of second hand embarrassment.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? No they don't want eugenics to eliminate diseases. They want it to eliminate Jews, and weirdly also pitbulls.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It's a stepping stone.

They can't say Black people are stupid criminals because they're descendants of slaves.

So they say pitbulls are violent psychopaths because they were (supposedly) bred to be tough and aggressive. They act like all that matters is they're pitbulls, and it's nothing anyone can change because "that's just science"

The implication is individual variation doesn't exist and any population that's been artificially separated for a couple generations makes them inherently different.

Racists have always loved taking a tiny grain of truth out of context and then just bullshitting till they end up with their preconceived result. Then if anyone challenges it, they grab that tiny grain of truth out of their giant mound of shit and claims that proves everything.

[–] Kache@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year 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.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

But where can they realize their sadistic genocide fantasies?

The brutality is a feature, not a bug.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago