Eugenics and Mermaids

I was recently having a conversation with a few individuals and Pride month came up. We each shared our opinions, which were relatively diverse. When it was my turn to speak, I started with a number of caveats, including that I think adults should be allowed to do what they like with consenting partners, or to modify their bodies as they see fit, including surgically, and that I am at least somewhat pro-choice. Then I told them I thought Pride, and more broadly a lot of aspects of modern Liberalism, were rebranded eugenics.

I spoke about the history of eugenics, and of how it was popular before World War 2 and the atrocities of the Nazis. Sterilizing so-called undesirables like the poor, people with disabilities, mental illnesses, and homosexuals was regarded as being a positive thing by a number of the intelligentsia of the time, including Margret Sanger of Planned Parenthood fame.

Observing the pro-trans movement now, people who would have been gay or lesbian in the past are now often coming out as trans. Many of the people who are now identifying as trans are autistic. They are being encouraged by society to take treatments and essentially submit to sterilization via “gender affirming” care.

Unlimited abortion on demand and assisted suicide as it is currently being practiced in Canada are two other Liberal policies that are being embraced and championed as essential, compassionate healthcare.

All of these things are being pushed by the liberal intelligentsia of our time, and when you put aside the rationalizations for them doing what they are doing, it amounts to fulfillment of the same goals eugenicists have always had. Sterilization of "undesirables" and population control for the poor, but rebranded for our times and given a rosy spin with public relations wizardry. 

“So Pride month, and modern liberalism in general, are basically eugenics with a colorful flag,” I finished.

One of the participants in the conversation nodded wisely.

“You think that’s messed up, I just saw this TikTok with a bunch of people who saw mermaids.”

Now, don’t get me wrong, I think mermaids are groovy and maybe the person was just trying to change the topic from my controversial hot take, but it occurred to me that anything someone says that deviates from conventional wisdom is instantly going to get lumped in with Qanon, Satanists on the Moon, and other entertaining flights of fancy.

I guess anyone who self-identifies as a magician in the 2020’s shouldn’t expect to be taken seriously by pretty much anyone.

That mermaid video was pretty neat though.