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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 16 Feb 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Richard Dawkins

    It’s one thing to deplore genocide on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It worked in the colonization of the Americas. Why on earth wouldn’t it work now? Facts ignore ideology.https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1228943686953664512 …

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    Richard DawkinsVerified account @RichardDawkins
    It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.
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      1. Jeffrey Shallit  🇺🇦‏ @shallit43 16 Feb 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Serious question: how about Dor Yeshorim? Is it eugenics? Is it ethical? My answer to both questions is "yes". How about yours?

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      1. Bubba Hazza‏ @trollinhatinyou 16 Feb 2020
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      2. Chris Moore‏ @Perfectly_Safe 17 Feb 2020

        Well quite. His core point is correct but banal. But I'm not enthusiastic about tweets about eugenics from high-profile academics while authoritarian nationalism is enjoying a resurgence worldwide.

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      1. hoo‏ @teedubitter 16 Feb 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Um.. what's your point? Genocide is reprehensible on any ground, but if powerful people decide to kill a whole lotta regular people of one ethnicity they can do so. History clearly shows it, as you pointed out in your own tweet.

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      1. Dazzling Urbanite‏ @apressler3 16 Feb 2020
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        It’s not “one thing” it’s the only thing.

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      1. Larry Rosenthal‏ @LarryRosenthal 16 Feb 2020
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        It didn’t work. That’s the point of white fear, guns, and the prison industrial complex in the United States for the last century. No happy “milked cows “ then or now. Sigh. Humans are not cows. We are at many times as dumb as them, but we are more. Sorry if I triggered any cows

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      1. hoo‏ @teedubitter 16 Feb 2020
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        For the most part ppl deplore genocide only when ppl are the target. The fact that ppl are responsible for the complete genocide of thousands of species goes by the wayside. Not to mention factory farming, where millions of baby chicks/ducks/etc are killed on an industrial scale.

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      1. RonWatts‏ @wrongwatch 16 Feb 2020
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        Thanks for this Jeet. It parallels the Dawkins statement in a way that shows Dawkins to be just reporting.

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      2. ℱrank ℬennett‏ @fgbjr 16 Feb 2020
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        Eugenics has worked for cows and dogs etc about as well as it worked for the Habsburgs.

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      3.  🌹 🍄We're All Mad (Online) Here 🎩 🌹‏ @Lollerwaffle 16 Feb 2020
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        Indeed. The end result of dog breeding seems to be a bunch of fucked up dogs prone to hip dysplasia & spinal deformities... Mixed mutts have always cost us fewer vet bills then any 'pure bred' given to us by relatives who couldnt care for them any longer.

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