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In reply to the discussion: Holy shit. Master race eugenics rhetoric here. This was how the Holocaust was started. Don't ignore. [View all]bucolic_frolic
(42,654 posts)78. "Nothing to do"?
Darwin laid the theory of natural selection. Admittedly he didn't create theories for human hierarchies, but without his theories, where do you get the Darwin in Social Darwinism? Natural selection and genetics were the roots that others applied. It was like a theoretical stew from which sprung theoretical justifications for racism, class structure, cutthroat capitalism, eugenics, even the Scopes monkey trial was taken in.
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Holy shit. Master race eugenics rhetoric here. This was how the Holocaust was started. Don't ignore. [View all]
kpete
Sep 2020
OP
The bastard is preaching the "good genes" crap while crowding all those poor suckers...
brush
Sep 2020
#7
I would take offence, but I actually know a couple who are first cousins.
Arkansas Granny
Sep 2020
#26
Let him try and claim he was speaking to all Minnesotan's. Of course there is no way he really
brewens
Sep 2020
#20
My Minnesota Norwegian genes are gonna vote his fat white supremacist ass
The Velveteen Ocelot
Sep 2020
#38
He's seems fucked up is it genetics? Probably not . If the trumps are the master race it is made
lunasun
Sep 2020
#49
Remember when he was whining about immigrants from "Shithole countries" and said he wanted
NoRoadUntravelled
Sep 2020
#52
American women with good genes don't stick around long with him in relationships.
Captain Zero
Sep 2020
#76
Let him steal another 4 years, and he'll do eugenics, not just talk genetics.
ancianita
Sep 2020
#70