I deleted my eugenics tweet, not because I don't stand behind it but because I think my phrasing was unclear. So a thread to clarify exactly what I mean:
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Biological purity is very fascinating. We got a lot of bad history associated with that concept though, which muddies the waters and restricts wide conversations. As seen with you, you get lashed. Not spoken to.
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Yeah, eugenics almost always referred to as sterilization it people deemed undesirable, and it usually extremely racist
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You can’t just take one definition of a word like eugenics and act as if that’s what everyone means when they use it. Eugenics isn’t just the idea of how human genetics change. It’s a philosophy about human value that has a significant violent history.
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An individual couple deciding not to have biological children because they don’t want to pass down a genetic condition is Not eugenics. That is not what the word has ever meant.
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We're discovering more and more every day that forced bad things or not, it's still a bad thing/ bad science. Your attempts to rectify things isn't less-wrong here. Whatever you call it, eugenics isn't something we have the nuanced knowledge to tackle and might not ever.
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Even discounting the "oops there were good parts of those genes we weren't looking for" in a closed loop sense, there are plenty of outsider unknowable factors that we could never account for to make eugenics long term feasible. We just always end up in a different battlefield.
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We have CRISPER and gene mapping. The ability to modify ourselves is radically expanding. We HAVE to talk about it, but as you've found out, there are a lot of hidden landmines and emotional reactions surrounding this.
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Folks, if we're promoting neurodiversity, the first thing we need to allow is for the diverse among us to make these kinds of clarifications when misunderstandings occur. Semantics is a shitty thing to ruin good faith actors over. Engage and ask clarifying questions.
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"Eugenics" is not an umbrella term. JFC, educate yourself.
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That’s what she’s doing right this minute: don’t knock on someone who is learning.
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