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by marxisttemp 68 days ago
No, because that’s natural selection, not artificial selection by an authoritarian government. Hope this helps!
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There was no artificial selection by a government in this movie.
The movie obviously doesn’t depict a eugenics program, but it makes the core argument of eugenics: if human breeding is left uncontrolled it will lead to “stupid” people breeding more.
Which authoritarian government, lmao.
Nazi Germany and America, for two, lmao
America didn’t mandate eugenics in the movie and what does this even have to do with Nazies?
> America didn’t mandate eugenics in the movie

Correct! It mandated eugenics in real life, in the early 20th century. I didn't say that the movie shows eugenics happening. I said "the film itself implies that the idiocracy is due to stupid people breeding more, a classic tenet of Nazism and eugenics alike." Work on your reading comprehension.