Conservatives are ornery 'cause of their “Medula Oblongata”!
Did you just make a Water Boy reference?
I think something’s wrong with YOUR medulla oblongata’!
I agree with the OP, particularly if you apply the comments just to the 50% of what is left of the GOP to whom those remarks are most closely applicable. But. The other 50% panders to those treasonous, insane foolish people and are thus subject to the same criticism. KaPeesh?
Far right wingers are surely suffering from a genetic condition identified by neurologists that makes them act like complete idiots and selfish little children.
Ha.
They were against Eugenics. History seems to have backed them on that.
Occam’s Razor suggests that the simplest explanation is the most preferred. I’m not sure that I see parents teaching political values that persist over development as a simpler explanation than shared genetic factors result in similar neurobiological functioning.
In reality, the more likely explanation is that both heritability and environmental factors contribute to an outcome as complex as this.
Here’s some of the research and discussion:
http://lcap.psych.ucla.edu/pdfs/amodio_natureneuroscience07.pdf
Hey fuck off! I’m mentally ill & liberal and I don’t wanna lumped in with the OP! Can’t we call political glossers something else that doesn’t deride the reality challenged?
Hmmm. That seems like an extraordinarily dubious proposition. Is that a joke?
No. Eugenics was considered a Progressive innovation. We were going to improve humanity through Science!
This is now generally seen to have issues.
I’ll try to be clearer. Cite evidence for your assertion.
Prominent Progressives Pro-Eugenics;
Margaret Sanger
Marie Stopes
H. G. Wells
Norman Haire
Havelock Ellis
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Sidney Webb
I agree. But what conservative position was the alternative to eugenics?
The sad reality is that pretty much everyone back then was racist. Progressives tried to justify their racism with science while conservatives just relied on tradition.
Eugenics was bad. But so was the idea that black people were inferior because their ancestor saw Noah naked.
Well, the Catholic position was
“Public magistrates have no direct power over the bodies of their subjects; therefore, where no crime has taken place and there is no cause present for grave punishment, they can never directly harm, or tamper with the integrity of the body, either for the reasons of eugenics or for any other reason.”
make of that what you will. Generally my impression is that Conservatives didn’t like the idea of someone else having control of whether or not any given person could have kids.
True enough.
N.B.: “Progressive” in the modern, left-liberal or social-democratic sense is a very different thing from Progressive Era progressivism.
No true Scotsman supported eugenics.
Regards,
Shodan
Three things:
First, here’s your original claim:
Note that “they” refers to conservatives.
Here’s your support for the claim:
Can you spot the inconsistency in your claim versus your support for your claim?
Secondly, my guess is that you took your list from Wikipedia’s page on eugenics. You appear to have selectively excised certain members of that list.
Thirdly, the next paragraph from the Wikipedia page lists prominent opponents of eugenics. These examples are decidedly not conservatives.
Was there a claim made about who supported eugenics?
Are you capable of reading and comprehending basic English? I know that it’s possible that an overactive limbic system can impair executive function, after all.
So… if being conservative turns out to be a result of genetics, would it be possible for a person to be a liberal trapped in a conservative’s body?
And is there a surgical solution?
OTOH, saying “Transgenders are mentally ill” is not, even if some Dopers are openly transgendered.