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Aella
@Aella_Girl
And this intense knee-jerk reaction I'm seeing about "EUGENICS=BAD" just... like... ok yes i understand that it has been used for very bad things but that does not inherently make it bad. You seem to be ok with people aborting down syndrome fetuses, so at least be consistent.
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QC (4/10 Substack posts)
@QiaochuYuan
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@Aella_Girl
my pet theory, which i also thought was everyone else's pet theory so it's interesting to see that it isn't, is that eugenics = hitler and after the death of god hitler is the closest thing we have to satan; they fulfill mythological roles and need to be understood mythologically
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Sarah Constantin
@s_r_constantin
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@Aella_Girl
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@QiaochuYuan
The literal Devil, probably. Also: the prototype metonym for bloodthirstiness was often a “savage” — cannibals, human sacrifice, Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, etc. Lots of 1910’s-1920’s stuff about scary Africa (or other “primitive cultures”) representing the horror within us.
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