Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John Ames Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: GNU Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:26:29 -0700 Organization: A place where nothing fits quite right Lines: 25 Message-ID: <20260317092629.00004ccc@gmail.com> References: <1772787512-12588@newsgrouper.org> <10oeeru$kih0$1@dont-email.me> <10oeiea$lo5g$2@dont-email.me> <6our7mxi9i.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <2jipqkts0iiap7qekf3mr8n580hh3tgph6@4ax.com> <10oj4iv$256in$7@dont-email.me> <10ojmjv$2ashr$1@dont-email.me> <10okvro$2qvnj$1@dont-email.me> <10p7bp4$1g2jr$1@dont-email.me> <10p8ukd$1vi0v$9@dont-email.me> <10p901u$1vi0v$16@dont-email.me> <10p9std$2bvlt$1@dont-email.me> <20260316150843.0000177c@gmail.com> <10pb4mr$2obtv$6@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="51cd7c1baf267b3fe8aa2ad3cc06be04"; logging-data="3205958"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198CixIv3Cf7woowOXXkTMQrTdbrVosGYg=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:EZx/xrSoMcwKaGbfj8BLnsOUjO4= X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.3.0 (GTK 3.24.42; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:83244 alt.usage.english:1139822 On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:51:39 +0000 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > > "Eugenic" notions of gene-pool quality as rbowman seems to espouse > > have precious little to do with genetic diversity or long-term > > population advantages and much more to do with lending the weight > > of pseudo- scientific authority to old established prejudices. > > > > If you just pretend that "criminal" or other "undesirable" traits > > are hereditary, it gets real easy to tar a whole *group* you don't > > like with that brush, just by claiming they had some Very Assuredly > > Real defect of ancestry back in the mists of time, and your own > > bigotry is therefore rendered Logical And Objectively Correct. > > Amazing how that works! > > How quaint. > The gene pool speaks Sure does! (as the legally-blind left eye I got from my maternal grand- father can attest.) It's just funny how the list of supposedly "hered- itary" behavioral defects claimed about Group B by Group A lines up so neatly with the things Group A was already saying about Group B when Gregor Mendel was still toddling around a farmhouse in Silesia. Mighty convenient, that.