RE: https://mastodon.social/@Green_Footballs/115998586927326681
You know, if you're a white supremacist and your goal is to deniably exterminate the untermenschen in camps by negligently letting plagues rip through them instead of gassing them, it shows a REMARKABLE lack of foresight to put an anti-vaxx nutcase in charge of your master race's public health policy, doesn't it?
These guys are evil but they're not terribly smart.
If they think letting disease rip through the population will "evolve" us, by selecting for good genes... well, that takes a while to happen.
Here's a walk-through of a paper on the evidence for an ancient viral pandemic in Asia. Yes, it changed the genome... slightly (42 genes with evidence of some selective mutation).
But... that pandemic apparently ran for about 20,000 years.
Do they want “to evolve”? Or do they think that disease is simply a natural, god-given filter, naturally culling undesirables? Do they not believe they are already at the pinnacle, and innately immune? Or that disease is a test of blood purity, when it is not always clear to human eyes?
@8r3n7 @cstross @Green_Footballs
I think you may have a good point.
The worst of them probably do regard themselves as the pinnacle, and evolutionary "selection" events simply remove their inferiors.
But I have no particular evidence of their belief or not, that's just how it feels from listening to them.
Charlie Stross
Weekend Editor
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