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People will tell you it has something to do with covid, but this movement has been growing since the late 90's with the rise of the dot com millionaire nouveau
by devmor 2y ago
People will tell you it has something to do with covid, but this movement has been growing since the late 90's with the rise of the dot com millionaire nouveau riche - a large class of fairly uneducated people with a lot of money to swing around.
There are a myriad of complex reasons, but one important note is that many high profile donors of the current right wing believe in early 20th century Eugenics - blind to the advantages they have received from modern medicine and civilization, they see themselves as having "superior genes" and implements like vaccines as some kind of crutch that only prop up the weak and pollute the species with lineage that doesn't deserve to be there.
It's a belief system fully rooted in undeserved ego and pure scientific ignorance.
- zmgsabst 2y ago[flagged]
- kemotep 2y agoAnd the Republican party used to have the nickname the Wide Awakes and were home of large elements of the Progressive movement in the mid 19th through early 20th century. Teddy Roosevelt being a famous example of a Progressive President at the time. So what does what a movement 100 years ago have to do with modern politics? Edit: Since the comment died: Who is even talking about eugenics in 2025 in the United States? Does either political party have an agenda of sterilizing mentally ill children? I haven’t even seen attack ads from Republicans saying Democrats are doing that. Trump nor Harris had anything about sterilizing mentally ill children on their campaign websites or even preventing it from happening. So where is this coming from?
- zmgsabst 2y ago[flagged]
- IAmGraydon 2y ago>many high profile donors of the current right wing believe in early 20th century Eugenics - blind to the advantages they have received from modern medicine and civilization, they see themselves as having "superior genes" and implements like vaccines as some kind of crutch that only prop up the weak and pollute the species with lineage that doesn't deserve to be there. Quite a claim. Where is your evidence of this?
- devmor 2y agohttps://x.com/elonmusk https://x.com/elonmusk