Anonymous #4 10w

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Anonymous #3 10w

Yeah, honestly. He’s probably tied w/ FDR for me. Both were excellent at governing during crises.

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Anonymous shrimp_fried_rice 10w

Yeah. I also am not a big fan of “big stick” diplomacy either, but definitely like the Square Deal.

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Anonymous shrimp_fried_rice 10w

Eugenics in terms of where it fell politically is such a complex thing. I had to read an excerpt of a long dead professor of my uni who was a big eugenics advocate for a class. It was definitely rich vs poor, racist, and ableist, but its supporters were all over. The professor in question’s writings were soooo progressive by today’s standards, especially in terms of science and wanting equality of race and gender. Then out of left field he goes off about forced sterilization

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Anonymous #6 10w

Well Eugenics isn’t inherently a terrible idea. But its implementation at the time was based on shaky racial science and was pretty coercive.

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Anonymous #9 10w

Eugenics “isn’t inherently a terrible idea” until it’s your kid

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Anonymous landtrust 10w

Well I wouldn’t support coercing people to not reproduce or anything like that, I could be convinced that more intelligent people should be encouraged though. I don’t see how such a program could hurt my child tbh

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Anonymous #9 10w

I like the way the American South has implemented reverse eugenics. Inbreeding and incest en masse to eventually reach infertility and rid the world of the plague that is the Southern US.

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Anonymous #8 10w

Tbh this is mostly stereotype. There is more inbreeding in the southern states than in the rest of the Us. But plenty of places in Canada are worse and most of the Middle East and North Africa is as well.

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Anonymous #9 10w

Tbh, it isn’t. I fucking live here.

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Anonymous #8 10w

I live in the South to, but you just lack of reference point for other parts of the world I couldn’t find anything for the south specifically but on a country level it doesn’t even really move the scale for the US.

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Anonymous #9 10w

It isn’t just a stereotype. It’s a serious problem.

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Anonymous #9 10w

It doesn’t “move the scale” because of the law of averages. The rest of the country balances out the backwoods pedo dads hiding in every Baptist church across the south.

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Anonymous #8 10w

It’s more of a rural thing than anything. There are rural areas if the Midwest like that too

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Anonymous #9 10w

Shoot the concept of humanity at peak physical and mental condition isn’t bad on paper, but the means to the end was and still would be nothing shy of horrific. I want to see scientific advancements to make it attainable in an ethical way, curing rather than killing. Plus back then it was also a very politicized thing, used to discriminate against ppl with FAMILY HISTORIES NOT EVEN THE PPL THEMSELVES with conditions as common as alcoholism, depression, and seizures.

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Anonymous #9 10w

“Your great grandma used to have seizures? I guess you can’t get my blessing to marry my daughter.” (side note: i had to ask my professor, the blessing tradition came before eugenics it was just used to subjugate during the movement).

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Anonymous #8 10w

I mean almost 40% of the country lives in the South. In breeding is an issue for isolated and rural communities in the mountains, but not for the general population. The thing is that isolated communities the world over have this problem.

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Anonymous #6 10w

Its a bit frustrating when people put words in my mouth sense I advocated using incentives to encourage certain people to have kids rather than creating any sort of government mandate to prevent people from having them. If parents do or don’t give “their blessing” is not something the government can (or should) have any control over.

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Anonymous #9 10w

I agree with you concerning the role of science though. Realistically genetic engineering is the most realistic path, so in all likelihood other policies aren’t even worth worrying about. They are too tainted by the legacy of racism and abuse to be politically viable either way.

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Anonymous #9 10w

The rural south isn’t isolated. Lmfao

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Anonymous #8 10w

The inbred parts usually are.

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Anonymous #9 10w

No.

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