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Another 'modest proposal'
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| 23 October 2007
| Justin Jones
Posted on 10/23/2007 12:03:40 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
This is the column in the school newspaper sent the principal into a panic ... running around and confiscating uncirculated copies of the column.
Another 'modest proposal'
by Justin Jones
Published on: 10/23/07
For a millennium, the world has been plagued with stupid people corrupting society and bastardizing the value of life for all of mankind.
The intellectually handicapped have been reproducing at a substantially greater rate than those with a fully functional brain.
The problem of the unintelligent reproducing is, and has been, a serious threat to society that has gone unchecked for far too long. It is the responsibility of man to solve this problem before a reverse Darwinism takes effect.
(Excerpt) Read more at boortz.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: editorial; eugenics; highschool; jonathanswift; modestproposal; populationcontrol
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This should kick up quite a fuss....
To: Turret Gunner A20
Actually, it’s a pretty well written piece of satire for a high school kid.
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:06:26 PM PDT
by
joebuck
To: Turret Gunner A20
He’s talking about Democrats not being allowed to reproduce, right?
(That’s MY definition of “stupid”.)
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:08:19 PM PDT
by
Mrs.Z
To: Turret Gunner A20
Second, the government should compile a standardized test to thoroughly analyze any and all 5th grade students in the country for IQ levels. Based on the results of the test, those who perform in the bottom 25 percent should be executed. The executions will not be inhumane; simple lethal injections while one sleeps would be sufficient. With the bottom of every class systematically removed, over time the world would inevitably thrive and prosper like never before. Wow! Talk about stressing out before taking a test! (Wasn't there a Twilight Zone or Night Gallery about this once? Except that they got rid of the smart kids that might be a threat to "equality"?)
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:09:13 PM PDT
by
scan59
(Let consumers dictate market policies. Government just gets in the way.)
To: Turret Gunner A20
Lowest 25% of IQ persons executed. I could not disagree more. That is just plain stupid.
It would be far better to replace "dancing with the stars" and "American Idol" with shows such as "Idiot Island", Dueling Dummies", and "Last 'Tard Standing".
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:09:43 PM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
To: scan59; Turret Gunner A20
Second, the government should compile a standardized test to thoroughly analyze any and all 5th grade students in the country for IQ levels. Based on the results of the test, those who perform in the bottom 25 percent should be executed. The executions will not be inhumane; simple lethal injections while one sleeps would be sufficient. With the bottom of every class systematically removed, over time the world would inevitably thrive and prosper like never before. Many businesses do this as a routine matter of course - fire the bottom 10% every year to improve your work force. This article just takes the concept a step or two further...
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:14:54 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(Marine to Gen Pace: "Sir, thanks for your service. We’ll take it from here.")
To: Phantom Lord
>> Lowest 25% of IQ persons executed. I could not disagree more. That is just plain stupid.
I agree, but for a different reason.
I’ve been told I’m 41st percentile in intelligence, so I’d like to see the “lower 40” get the needle.
To: Turret Gunner A20
Before we get the usual flood of illiterates who don't realize it's (somewhat mediocre) satire, this is something of a tribute to the
original "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift, which advocated eating babies to alleviate starvation (less kids, more food).
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:16:48 PM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Defenseless enemies are fun.)
To: Mrs.Z
Hes talking about Democrats not being allowed to reproduce, right? (Thats MY definition of stupid.)
Gee, I hadn't thought about that -- but, if that's what he's talking about, I think it's a stroke of genius, myself.
To: Turret Gunner A20
This sounds a lot like the stuff Eric Harris of Columbine High School used to write for his English classes.
To: Turret Gunner A20; All
This is great stuff. Stick with me here. The author writes:
"Since mankind obviously cannot control itself enough to make strides for the future, the populace spins into an out of control state of reverse Darwinism where the stupid people survive and the smart people perish."
...reverse Darwinism? Ponder that thought for a moment. Reverse Darwinism. Wouldn't that make the stupid people the fittest? Reverse Darwinism: Where only the unfittest survive. (Gotta love the logic.) As opposed to the survival of the fittest? I'm shaking my head trying to get my thoughts around such an obtuse statement. Clearly the author, in the face of "over whelming evidence" of the gradual extinction of the intellectually endowed, is confused. I don't know if this statement is a paradox of ironic proportions or ironically paradoxical. The very definition of reverse Darwinism is a paradox in and of itself. You follow me?
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:31:06 PM PDT
by
coffee260
(coffee)
To: Turret Gunner A20
Humm...satire. OK, I get it. I just thought that some liberal wrote out what he really thought intending not to email it but instead emailed the wrong letter. Satire and Liberalism have become one and the same.
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posted on
10/23/2007 12:36:43 PM PDT
by
coffee260
(coffee)
To: joebuck
I guess you cannot really plagarize from something as old as Swift? Most screenplays are derivative of Shakespeare, the Bible or Kurosawa.
To: Slapshot68; SpinnerWebb
This sounds a lot like the stuff Eric Harris of Columbine High School used to write for his English classes. Only to the satirically impaired ...
No soup for you.
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posted on
10/23/2007 1:02:02 PM PDT
by
tx_eggman
("Believing without loving turns the best of creeds into a weapon of oppression" Eugene Peterson)
To: tx_eggman
Can you say “Eugenics” kiddies? I knew you could.
TC
To: Turret Gunner A20
To: Pentagon Leatherneck
>Can you say Eugenics kiddies? I knew you could.
Wait a second, we already do that. It’s called “abortion”
Ahh! A slippery slope!
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posted on
10/23/2007 1:48:28 PM PDT
by
ROTB
(Front Runner=rich guy who doesn't hate evil and strives to offend no one, AND WILL SELL YOU OUT.)
To: Nervous Tick
Ive been told Im 41st percentile in intelligence, so Id like to see the lower 40 get the needle...
I can see why, you chose your FRname....esp. If, say a 42+ percentile had said the same for those below their numerical valve.
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posted on
10/23/2007 2:42:36 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
To: steve8714
...Kurosawa...LOL! HA!...(7 Samurai :)
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posted on
10/23/2007 2:45:36 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
To: Turret Gunner A20
It’s a public school right?
So does he get two points for mentioning Darwinism in the context of a valid theory?
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posted on
10/23/2007 2:49:25 PM PDT
by
Hostage
(Fred Thompson will be President.)
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