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Damn, you must be a Yogi, if you're that great at bending over backwards to make a point.
lol, wut?
That included the "mental illness" of "feeble mindedness" and "promiscuity" of Carrie Buck. "Feeble mindedness" was once determined by IQ tests, btw. Noticing a pattern already?
Yes, so far, so good
Why not? Where in the handbook of eugenics does it say that it has to be explicitly racist? The whole idea of the "wrong people" having "too many" kids leads to a "degeneration" of society is the basic justification behind negative eugenics!
I'm talking about the setup. You can see the IQ of the smart couple in the beginning.
I'm judging by the internal logic of the movie, not on the real world. I know that the real world doesn't work like that at all. ๐
No, you! /j
I disagree
You're misrepresenting the movie by cherry-picking, which invalidates your arguments.