The author nails it!
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The March for Life in Wash. DC is this week. Jan. 22nd. Be there! Pray for life from conception to natural death.
And whether Amanda Marcotte wants to admit it or not, in her view too much melanin in the skin is a good reason for abortion.
“niggling”
Hey, isn’t that racist?
If you aren’t familiar with Amanda Marcotte, she is a walking cliche of leftist/feminist garbage. It takes a truly degraded culture for there to be a way for her to earn a living writing opinion pieces.
It’s too bad that eugenics got itself such a bad name due to those who pushed it based on bad science.
The problem is that the author here uses “eugenics” as a scare word, much the way liberals use “racist.” It’ supposed to make us refuse to even think about the issue under discussion.
Eugenics, as such, is simply the recognition that the laws of genetics apply to humans just as much as they do to bulldogs or pedigree pigs.
If successful people, which in our society on average means more intelligent people, have fewer children than less successful people, it is very nearly certain that our society will in future have a larger proportion of less-intelligent people. That will have all sorts of consequences, many of which we can’t even imagine.
But we’re not even allowed to talk about it.
BTW, I’m not specifically addressing Marcotte’s comments, only the author’s use of the word “eugenics” to close down discussion.