#Eugen Gross

[pirateprincessjess]

I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.

One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.

The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.

I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.

When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.

The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.

I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.

[vaspider]

Okay, I'm only gonna say this once: this is eugenics bullshit. People don't have allergies or celiac disease because they have "bad DNA."

What the fuuuuck.

[shanks]

狐猫

[pookielious]

The fact that the medics of e and d company shaved a LTs mustache and then gave sobel a appendectomy scar after knocking him out with anesthetic as a retaliation against their personal items being taken as contraband is actually insane

[harmonizingsunsets]

I’m sorry if this has been done before but I had to

[arrowpunk]

God damn it all. I want to like Arcane. I really enjoyed everything up to like. The final two episodes. But then they had to go and make. The disabled guy who was trying to make the world a better place. Into a eugenicist.

And the stuff Jayce said to Viktor about how Viktor always saw his disability and sickness as flaws to be fixed/cured/perfected or whatever. Was like really gross. Yeah. Viktor didn't want to fucking Die. That doesn't mean that he wanted to? Remove disabilities in general from the world. He wanted to make the world a better place for everyone. He grew up in the undercity, and because of that he got a terminal illness that was slowly killing him. He wanted to make life better for people in the undercity so they weren't Suffering.

That doesn't mean eugenicssssssss.

And making it so that Viktor has actually been the big villain/antagonist all along? And that apparently?? In Every Single Universe? He becomes a eugenicist? Unless Jayce saves him from that???

Dude what the actual fuck. What the actual literal fuck.

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Ray Bradbury Theater | Skeleton | S2.E2 | 1988

[starswallowingsea]

insane how anthropology majors will have entire classes about how biological race isn't a thing and here's why but it's still very much a social construct and impacts peoples day to day lives and that needs to be acknowledged. also race based science is a fucking lie and a load of horseshit made by eugenicists to try and kill off everyone they didnt like.

and then you look at people in medical school who still believe that black people have denser muscles because of a study that hasn't been updated in a hundred years and absolutely refuse to interact with social sciences on this issue

anyway congrats to the american pediatrics association for finally saying they're no longer doing race based medicine this past summer. hopefully other organizations will follow soon

[biseugen]

happy mother's day

[spoonstrek]

You ever see such a shit ass fucking take you want to go back to watching the misogyny demon train an incel mass shooter?

[subconsciousmysteries]

Men are absolutely losing it because women are seeing through their bullshit and I'm here to watch their collective narcissistic meltdown

[coulsonlives]

Someone should make a bingo card of all the times bogleech has wished death on people, istg we'd have a full card by now lol

[nickbutnodick]

there are two kinds of baby bird.

fluffy, adorable wittle guy! look at the flurf! i just wanna hug it.

and AH! what is that fucked up demon worm? get the moist ass skrieching abomination away from me.

[anghraine]

I'm hardly uncritical of Aragorn or his hereditary claim to the Gondorian throne, but I do think the occasional focus on how he only has a tiny fraction of Elvish blood or Elendil's/Elros's blood is ill-placed.

I mean, for one, counting generations in a single line of descent with someone as inbred as Aragorn doesn't make sense anyway.

But more importantly, it's one thing to point out how much time has passed between Isildur's time in Gondor and LOTR, or even Fíriel's time and Aragorn's. It has been a very long time, and that's part of what makes the challenge so steep for him (it'd be less interesting if he could just waltz into Gondor and be instantly acclaimed at any moment). But when it gets down to "and how many portions of X blood does he have, anyway," it's just ... ugh. Let's not.

[rogueshadeaux]

I thought Alden Tate was inFAMOUS' Magneto spoof for, like, eight years. Apparently he's not ferrokinetic??? He's just telepathic - which really takes away the appeal for me as literally anyone in the First Sons were.

Might rewrite history a bit for Erosion lol.

[dilfsisko]

At what point does PGT in ivf just become eugenics I wonder