A Discredited Theory

~ Clarissa
San Antonio Express News, “Natalism Conference with Far Right Ties”, https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/natal-conference-university-texas-austin-20248684.php

It’s gotten to the unexpected point where the theory of evolution is described in the press as a far-right conspiracy.

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  1. Wanting to have kids is now a far right position.

    These people cannot and should not be debated with. I refuse to debase myself by providing citations as to why our continued existence as a species is a good thing.

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    1. I had a debate about precisely this today, finding myself in a bizarre situation of having to explain how every creature and every species procreates as a matter of course and part of the survival instinct.

      These people get is to defend the most normal things like we are the weirdos for being normal.

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  2. I genuinely dislike the crowd they’re criticizing, even for many of the same reasons. Wish I had smarter people on my side…

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  3. “the theory of evolution is described in the press as a far-right conspiracy”

    Horseshoe in action!

    Religious right: the ToE is satan’s work to lure christians away from Christ!

    Atheist left: The ToE is cishet male white supremacy in action!

    We are for sure in the stupidest of all possible time lines…

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      1. ““Religious right“”

        It’s an American thang…. lots of names (for very similar though technically different groups.
        Evangelicals, the religious right, Christian Nationalists (newest label).
        In general they take the Bible extremely seriously and want to use it as a model for society. Part of that (in terms of evolution) is a burning desire to make scripture fit the current scientific consensus and for science to conform to scripture. They are less monotheistic and more monocognitivists(?) they believer there is one truth (the Bible) and anything that deviates from that is mistaken (in the best case) or satanic (the usual case).

        “religious fundamentalists”

        Depends on what you mean by “fundamentalists”. Where I’m from the predominant definition of ‘fundamentalist’ is “a person who believes the Bible is literally true”.
        So… God creating the Earth in 6 days means 144 hours… they reject any kind of mythic or allegorical or metaphoric interpretation.
        They’re the ones who came up with ‘creation science’ and/or ‘intelligent design’ and ‘young earth’ etc.
        Many are nice people but I really don’t want them in office….

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        1. There were plenty of these kind of people in the apartheid government. For example, the Tower of Babel was a standard justification for why people should speak their God-given languages rather than English.

          Trump’s nomination for ambassador to SA seems like someone familiar with this worldview.

          https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-26-sa-set-for-a-rougher-ride-under-trumps-new-ambassador-leo-brent-bozell-iii/

          His nomination looks Iike a consolidation prize for failing to secure a domestic position, which is probably a good thing given his background.

          https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bozell-religious-right-gop/

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      2. Really good.

        It would be funny if it weren’t so real.

        You could do the same image for gender and racial stereotypes. Few hardcore Nazis hold as low an opinion of blacks as wokes do.

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  5. The Left has always preferred the biological proposals (they don’t deserve the dignity of a hypothesis) of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko

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  6. Actually, eugenics are beliefs and practices designed to improve humanity through controlled breeding. In the early 20th century, many of the left not only supported the idea, but put it into action in more than a dozen states in America and at least two provinces in Canada. Not surprisingly, these ideas became much less popular when the results of Nazi Germany’s efforts came to light.

    But new discoveries in human evolution revealing the genetics of early hominins may spur it again. There appears to be multiple instances of interbreeding by earlier members of our genus. And further that intermixing appears to be widely scattered, leaving us with variable geographical admixtures of that ancestry. Now I have always been a “lumper”, believing that if a cross leaves the fertile offspring, they are the same species. But there are always “splitters” that may try to see visible differences as separate species, and with humans, we should fear where that can lead.

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        1. Clarissa

          Yes, and the Canadian sanctimonious “Famous Five” upper class protofeminists, seeking personhood for themselves, while simultaneously loudly encouraging the sterilizing of obvious lower caste persons such as native Indians, Eastern Europeans, the disabled and/or impoverished, prostitutes, and the like.

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          1. This was exactly the same in Spain, too, where all of the feminists in the 1920s and 1930s were in favor of eugenics and expressed the kind of beliefs that today we would call despicable and Nazi.

            Just in case anybody is wondering, I’m completely opposed to eugenics. And I despise those feminists.

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            2. Yeah, Orwell saw that in Spain, quite possibly explaining: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.”

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