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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I just want to share this HN comment because it was the worst thing I've read all day.

Wait until they have kids. The deafness gene will be passed along. Soon enough we'll be like the cars with the hardware without the software or the locked features.

A treatment for a type of genetic deafness sounds good and all; but think of the implications man. The no-longer-deaf people might hear some steamy music and then get frisky and in the mood to make deaf babies. And next thing you know bam! There'll be activation keys for hearing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Who is more evolutionarily fit: a deaf person who appreciates technological progress and has kids, or an unloved eugenics enjoyer posting on hacker news?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I expect SneerClub to provide my alibis when reading one of these finally makes me snap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

you were busy posting I saw it myself

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Apparently deaf people never have kids. Hmm. Alright. Okay.

This guy isn't even the first techbro to suggest recently that if disabled people are allowed to have kids, eventually we will all be disabled. I know very very little about genetics, but I'm still pretty sure it doesn't work that way.