Eugenics, Me-genics, and Us-genics | The Roundtable Ep. 5 Segment 1
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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After some interesting tweets by Richard Dawkins, our editors wrestle with hard questions involving cultured human meat and Klingon gene replacement.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm taking a stand to a game what's inside me. |
| 0:05.0 | A monster, a monster, I turn into a monster, a monster, a monster, and it keeps getting it. So we'd thought we'd start tonight with an uncontroversial topic Richard |
| 0:15.0 | with an uncontroversial topic Richard Dawkins and eics, and lab-grown human meat. |
| 0:26.0 | So Dawkins got in some trouble this week. |
| 0:28.0 | It's a little too early to say that he's canceled, but he's halfway there. He was on Twitter talking about the fact |
| 0:37.0 | that though eugenics is of course horrible, we need to talk rationally about the group |
| 0:41.7 | differences and the role genetics plays, and it shouldn't |
| 0:46.1 | be taboo to talk about such things. |
| 0:47.6 | I know, Matt, you wanted to take up this topic |
| 0:50.3 | and send us into the stratosphere with it. |
| 0:52.8 | Yeah, I think there's a lot of non-bespoke and woke takes going on when it comes to |
| 1:00.4 | dunking on Dawkins, which I'm generally in favor of. |
| 1:03.5 | But so this is what he says for a listening audience on Twitter. |
| 1:06.5 | He said this, quote, it's one thing to deplore eugenics |
| 1:10.4 | on ideological, political, moral grounds, it's quite another to conclude that it wouldn't work in practice. |
| 1:16.0 | Of course it would. It works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs, and roses. |
| 1:21.0 | Why on earth wouldn't it work for humans? |
| 1:24.4 | Facts ignore ideology." |
| 1:26.6 | Unquote. |
| 1:27.6 | As you may guess if you don't know about it, |
| 1:30.2 | this caused a firestorm of reaction from all over the spectrum and you have a lot of people |
| 1:35.8 | certainly my friends my circles people like incline among the among my friends and |
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