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Reminded of this panel from Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.

Hit it with hammers 😈

this panel accepts the argument that physical features like skull shape have anything to do with human value. it takes the focus away from the racism and puts it squarely on appearance

As an aside, and it's a point so often made as to be petrified into cliché, but NONE of those lads who wang on about eugenics looks like they're going to be invited to the breeding population any time soon.

I mean also eugenics applied actually is dysgenics (as in they just wanna be inbred weirdos and die)

which is nothing against dying nor inbred people, but to seek out illness and death is fascist cultism

i dunno i've seen some hot people whose awful shitty estranged dads are into this stuff

Also see... 2/n

He's not in some marginal place or unemployed or anything. > UGent has defended its decision, stating that Cofnas was selected through a "procedurally correct" process that evaluated candidates based on qualifications like publications and expertise. www.brusselstimes.com/2007046/ghen... 3/n

So Ghent is some kind of Nazi school?

How is he still at Ghent? Has there been any statement on their part here or is it just business as usual?

And just to really hammer home the point that everyone has to have known very clearly what he thinks about Black people, the quote from him here in a mainstream media piece: “Zwarte mensen zijn minder slim” — literally means: “Black people are less intelligent” www.hln.be/gent/zwarte-... 4/n

Morality and decency aside, the main reason why eugenics hasn't been "reconsidered" by science is because it doesn't even work. Selective breeding of humans for the traits eugenicists desire is just not possible, and no amount of "re-evaluation" will change that, its just *not* a science

yes, and it's quite nuanced sadly as it started from science, and sadly science is a fluid concept that we must protect from this slippage 1/2

The Dutch will receive collective punishment in seven hells for their administratively correct procedures. Literally the kind of crap the Nazis came out with to excuse "just following orders".

Except it's Belgium, but I support that statement about NL too.

Man. I know I'm guilty of an ad hominem here, but: Just based on my looking at this guy, I'm having very uncharitable thoughts about the *real* reasons he's a standard-bearer for eugenics.

it's not ad hom if it's a conclusion and not a starting point LMAO so you're fine: it's abuse, but we punch nazis too, so there's a nuance

Well, thanks. I'd always tell my students, Attack the argument and not the person making the argument; but good heavens: Looking at him, the better angels of my nature suddenly seemed to have gone on vacation. So, thanks for assuaging my rhetorical discomfort there.

I'm going to make a prediction: Cofnas will be found, at some point, to have plagiarized some or all of his work, abused students, or otherwise acted in a manner that is unethical, illegal, and worthy of breaking tenure. It will not make the international news and he will not lose his position.