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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 12:45 PM Sep 2016

Along with everything else, Trump believes in eugenics.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/29/1575870/-Shocking-video-of-Trump-explaining-his-dangerous-theory-that-people-like-him-have-superior-genes

PBS and The Huffington Post have uncovered video evidence of Donald Trump’s long-held beliefs that he (and people like him) are genetically superior:

The Frontline documentary “The Choice,” which premiered this week on PBS, reveals that Trump agrees with the dangerous and abusive theory of eugenics.

Trump’s father instilled in him the idea that their family’s success was genetic, according to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio.

“The family subscribes to a racehorse theory of human development,” D’Antonio says in the documentary. “They believe that there are superior people and that if you put together the genes of a superior woman and a superior man, you get a superior offspring.”


There is also a video clip of Trump's various comments about the issue. He honestly believes he is somehow superior because of his 'genes'.

This guy is absolutely terrifying!!
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Along with everything else, Trump believes in eugenics. (Original Post) Stonepounder Sep 2016 OP
Snap goes another pilar of the Religious Right's Bogus Moral Superiority Vogon_Glory Sep 2016 #1
This needs to be a Hillary commercial. madaboutharry Sep 2016 #2
Survival of the fittest - no comprehension of the actual meaning BSdetect Sep 2016 #3

Vogon_Glory

(9,118 posts)
1. Snap goes another pilar of the Religious Right's Bogus Moral Superiority
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 12:54 PM
Sep 2016

One of the reasons that the Religious Right demonizes Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood today is because of their purported support of eugenics 90 years ago.

The Religious Right makes a big deal of opposing abortion for eugenic reasons today.

So naturally they're all-in for Donald Trump.

Go figure.

BSdetect

(8,998 posts)
3. Survival of the fittest - no comprehension of the actual meaning
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 01:03 PM
Sep 2016

It's not about the strongest.

So many fascists think that's what it means.

Stephen Hawking is fitting in my world very well.


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