{"id":100099,"date":"2017-05-04T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=100099"},"modified":"2017-05-04T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:21:17","slug":"the-real-eugenicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/05\/the-real-eugenicists.html","title":{"rendered":"The Real Eugenicists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Last week\u2019s Panic du Jour was about Bill Nye\u2019s stupid commentary on \u201cextra children\u201d. Don\u2019t get me wrong, Nye\u2019s comments were stupid and his attempt to \u201cjust ask questions\u201d was a transparent move to move such talk within the \u201cuniverse of discourse\u201d for Thoughtful People. So there was much dudgeon about it in prolife, conservative and Christian circles as a Perceived Culture War Enemy offered words that those on the Culture War Right could freak out over.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing: Nye has no actual power. He\u2019s a talking head on a show. Meanwhile, there are actual social Darwinists at work as we speak, laboring to harm and even kill undesirables who cost too much and who (they believe) have it coming. People who need to be purged from the gene pool for the sin of not leading pure enough lives as Rep. Mo Brooks made clear yesterday. Poor people. Fat people. People who smoke. People who have been raped, suffered, domestic violence, or had a C section.<\/a> People who need maternity benefits (health care \u201creform\u201d will drive up costs by over 400%). Kids in special ed. \u201cHuman debris\u201d as Limbaugh calls them. Riff raff. Lebens unwertensleben, as they are called in an appropriate language. People who are in the way of the Good White Christians of the GOP and their quest to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of Better People.<\/p>\n

And the response of the Panickers of last week? Fantastic! These people need weeded out of the gene pool. They have it coming.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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