• fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There already is a respectable kind of eugenics.

    It’s called “genetic counseling”.

    Here’s why it doesn’t sit well with pseudoconservatives (aka authoritarians):

    It’s consensual.

    It involves giving accurate, scientifically based information to potential parents, on the risk of genetic disorders that might lead to unhealthy children, so that they can make better decisions about parenthood.

    It does not involve racial pseudoscience, antisemitism, or violent compulsion of any sort. As such, it does not fit well with pseudoconservatism, fascism, etc.

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      1 year ago

      They want it to eliminate phenotypes that are different…

      Normal people want it to eliminate negative genotypes that lead to genetic issues and lifetimes of suffering for future generations.

      Two completely different goals.

      They just fundamentally don’t understand genetics, like when you tell them there’s more genetic diversity within Africa than between every other population outside of Africa. They can’t see genes by looking at someone, but they can see phenotypes. So 9/10 a conservative will say “but they’re all Black”.