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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by klyrs on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:49PM (#25741240)
Oh good, eugenics.

> Look how long its taken for gay people to be accepted by society. Not decades, but centuries. Transgender people don't have that long.

You might wanna read up on actual history before winging it. We've been around since time immemorial. Nothing new here, we've been variously celebrated, tolerated, and eradicated by societies throughout history. The last big purge was during the holocaust. Is that the side of history you wanna be on? Oh right, the eugenics thing. I shouldn't presume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by cbozeman on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:30AM (#25744870)
I've written before that there'll be a second eugenics movement. It'll likely happen when we have more knowledge about the human genome and a very easy way to edit it.

You're also assuming because I think a thing will happen, that I want it to happen. There are lots of things that I don't want to happen, that I'm almost certain will happen.

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