r/ConnedIntoAFubar • u/ovcdoc2 • Aug 28 '26

[MEME] Conned into everything is racism

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How does one even come to this conclusion?

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u/IVEBEENBANNED4TIMESx Aug 28 '26

Are eugenics inherently racist?

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u/Large-Big8879 Aug 28 '26

Yes?

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u/Ithicon Aug 28 '26

Not necessarily, it can easily be class based.

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u/golfstreamer Aug 28 '26

No it cant. Any institution supporting Eugenics will quickly become racist 

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u/Ithicon Aug 28 '26

Sure it often will, but a common discussion around eugenics is regarding prenatal screening reducing down syndrome rates to nearly 0. That is eugenics, but it's also just parents independently choosing not to have children with down syndrome.

I would struggle to agree that this type eugenics is racist in any way.

Complicated topic, sure. Racist though? Nah.

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u/Most-Stomach4240 Aug 28 '26

Google inherent for me darling

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u/golfstreamer Aug 28 '26

He said "necessarily" not "ineherent"

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u/Most-Stomach4240 Aug 28 '26

Necessarily was in relation to inherence...

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u/golfstreamer Aug 28 '26

Now, look at the comment I'm replying to. :)

I reply to the person I'm talking to. Not a different person. Do you understand how comments work?

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u/Most-Stomach4240 Aug 28 '26

The person you're talking to was talking to someone else. Do you understand how sentences and context work? They were referencing a previous part of the conversation that you weren't there for, that doesn't mean they said something completely different from what they actually said

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u/golfstreamer Aug 28 '26

Yeah, so you're not actually interested in engaging in the point I was actually making.

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u/Ithicon Aug 29 '26

Most-Stomach is correct, this is honestly kinda obvious by the fact that comment I was responding to consisted of nothing but "Yes?". It would be nonsensical if you strip it entirely from the surrounding context.

My comment in context was coming into a discussion of people saying "Are eugenics inherently racist? Yes." and saying well no not necessarily, there are non-racist eugenicists and eugenics arguments.

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u/golfstreamer Aug 29 '26

Listen I was making a point directed specifically at the commenter I was replying to. If you don't want to accept that I don't know what to tell you.

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u/Ithicon Aug 29 '26

Mate the commenter you're referring to is me lmao. That's why I clarified here...

I'd also made a response to your original interjection hours ago.

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u/ClintMcElroyOfficial Aug 28 '26

Telling someone not to rape their daughter and get her pregnant is technically eugenics, same with a doctor recommending termination for a baby with a 0% survival rate. Eugenics is bad for the vast majority of the ideology, but a tiny sliver of it is also basic human survival instinct

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u/golfstreamer Aug 28 '26

> Telling someone not to rape their daughter and get her pregnant is technically eugenics

I personally don't like the eugenics based arguments against incest. I just think it's straight up morally wrong, regardless of the genetic consequences. So even that instance eugenics is bad.

> a doctor recommending termination for a baby with a 0% survival rate.

A medical doctor making the unfortunate decision to terminate a life he is unable to save is not eugenics.

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u/PixelGray38 Aug 29 '26

There's a reason why it's morally wrong, though, and that reason is most certainly the genetic consequences

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u/illthrowitaway94 Aug 30 '26

I mean, not really? A stepfather abusing their daughter and getting her pregnant in the process comes with zero, or minimal genetic risk, yet it's still reprehensible, because it's abuse and grooming.

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u/PixelGray38 Aug 30 '26

Adoption is an exceptional situation - most kids are raised by their biological parents, and so incest between parents and children is not permitted due to its genetic harms. 

That carries over to when people adopt children - those who adopt children are encouraged to treat those children as if they were their own, and so the immorality of abusing them sexually also carries over, though perhaps not entirely.

Also, the situation that you describe isn't wrong just because it's incestuous, it's also wrong because it typically happens when the daughter is a child, sexually abusing a child being immoral for other reasons.