▲ 135 ▼ America’s premier pronatalists on having ‘tons of kids’ to save the world: ‘There are going to be countries of old people starving to death’ (www.theguardian.com) submitted 2 years ago by mpk@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems 153 comments fedilink hide all child comments The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.
[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 22 points 2 years ago* (1 child) the fascism is strong in those permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] skolima@hachyderm.io 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) @mawhrin @mpk "They’ve had the genomes of their frozen embryos tested and are selecting which ones to implant according to how well they score on intelligence and future health." That goes even creepier than I expected. Why did Guardian feel the need to do a second profile of them in what, a year? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mawhrin@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago the eugenicist language and narrative should've been at least strongly challenged permalink fedilink source parent
[–] skolima@hachyderm.io 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) @mawhrin @mpk "They’ve had the genomes of their frozen embryos tested and are selecting which ones to implant according to how well they score on intelligence and future health." That goes even creepier than I expected. Why did Guardian feel the need to do a second profile of them in what, a year? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mawhrin@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago the eugenicist language and narrative should've been at least strongly challenged permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago the eugenicist language and narrative should've been at least strongly challenged permalink fedilink source parent