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rayinertoday at 3:09 AM4 repliesview on HN

It's funny that people cite Idiocracy despite its explicitly eugenicist premise.


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rc5150today at 3:48 AM

I've heard this criticism before and I don't that it paints the complete picture. I reckon it's less a commentary on "weeding out" the intellectually and physically disabled but more a commentary on a society and government that makes stupid decisions (brawndo on plants) and rewards anti-intellectualism to the point of it becoming a core component of life in the year 2505.

The society depicted in Idiocracy is the way it is by choice that turns into policy. I highly doubt Mike Judge wants to start culling the population of undesirable traits like birth defects, intellectual disablities, learning disabilities, etc.

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like_any_othertoday at 5:14 AM

'Despite'? I thought the theory of evolution was widely accepted.

rotringlvrtoday at 3:18 AM

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