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[johnsmith]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-eugenics_us_57ec4cc2e4b024a52d2cc7f9

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has offered a litany of racist comments, which it turns out may be rooted in his deeper belief in the inherent superiority of some people ― and not others.

The Frontline documentary “The Choice,” which premiered this week on PBS, reveals that Trump agrees with the dangerous and abusive theory of eugenics.

Trump’s father instilled in him the idea that their family’s success was genetic, according to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio.

“The family subscribes to a racehorse theory of human development,” D’Antonio says in the documentary. “They believe that there are superior people and that if you put together the genes of a superior woman and a superior man, you get a superior offspring.”

The Huffington Post dug back through the archives and found numerous examples of Trump suggesting that intellect and success are purely genetic qualities and that having “the right genes” gave him his “very good brain.”

The video is a must watch, it really explains so so much about him, and his similarities to another famous German.

The full frontline documentary is here:
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365848966/

 

[Toxi]

Trump is not having a good week.

 

[Fracas]

Tiny hands don't run in his family tho

 

[The Lamp]

Since the article mentions the documentary, I'm gonna reiterate that everyone needs to watch that PBS Frontline documentary. It's so well-made and really shows what a completely fucked up human Trump is.

 

[Poltergust]

Huh, I watched that earlier today and I completely glossed over this part.

 

[EatinOlives]

Jesus christ.

Just as I think my opinion of Trump can't get any lower, I come across this. He is the closest thing there is to literal human filth.

 

[DontBeThatGuy]

Well, ok, I'm gonna watch that documentary now.

 

[hitme]

Best genes? Not with that hair.

 

[ffdgh]

Please...don't shut up.

 

[Dai101]

**gasp!

 

[sans_pants]

this plus the hitler review...


something is going on folks

 

[Henry Jones Jr]

Huh, I watched that earlier today and I completely glossed over this part.

Its not really focused on in the documentary. Basically just the two sentences bolded in the quote of the OT.

 

[jstripes]

Too bad that very good brain isn't good at talking.

 

[hypernima]

Obama grillin him in this doc lol

 

[googleplex]

Trump is a cartoon villain at this point. This whole thing would be funny if almost half of the american electorate wasn't going to vote for him in November.

 

[Strike]

I'd like to hear his opinion on final solutions.

 

[Mahonay]

I guess they fucked up with Donald.

 

[Dufoos]

I want to say I can't believe this

 

[Regulus Tera]

He's so proud of his German heritage yet doesn't use the Drumpf moniker.

 

[Wilsongt]

So he actually believes Sanger's idea of eugenics?

Yet people are railing on Clinton for admiring Sanger for starting planned parenthood?

Awright.

 

[Mahonay]

I want to say I can't believe this

This sounds exactly like something Trump would believe in. Really isn't very surprisingly at all.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Tiny hands don't run in his family tho

He makes up for it with a mouth to fit both of his feet into at once.

 

[phaonaut]

5 mins in and Omarosa seems crazy.

 

[Empyrean Heaven]

Superior genetics?
Proud to be German?
I don't like where this is heading...

 

[RustyNails]

I want to say I can't believe this

If you think the Frontline episode is too long, watch this video.

 

[rjinaz]

He ain't got no minority genes in there folks. Explains why he isn't prone to violence, a habitual drug user, poor, stupid. Ain't no kids of his getting those genes in there either or their kids, let me tell you.

I have to wonder if Trump, in hindsight, has ever stopped to think, oh shit, did I say that out loud?

 

[kess]

Fits in with the scientific racism churning in the depths

 

[Dai101]

Superior genetics?
Proud to be German?
I don't like where this is heading...

Heading?

 

[Wilsongt]

Superior genetics?
Proud to be German?
I don't like where this is heading...

Heading? We've been there for a while now, just no one gives a shit outside of GAF because Teflon Don.

 

[Wag]

Tiny hands don't run in his family tho

But his dick is HUUUUUUGE!

 

[Jonm1010]

Not to be that guy, and I can't watch the video right now so maybe that adds some extra diabolicalness, but based on just that article, that isn't really eugenics? i'm not even sure its all that controversial IMO. Just kinda adds to the narcissist framing of Trump.

I remember a Madden game years back where you pick your parents. The game implying that if you picked something like a mother that was a runner and father that was a HOF wide receiver you will have greater speed then the parents that are not athletic.

 

[MrToughPants]

But his dick is HUUUUUUGE!

Correction.

His tiny hands make it look HUGE.

 

[Cyan]

While it's both funny and sad that Donald Trump is clearly oblivious to the fact that he's a deeply stupid man (google Dunning-Kruger for the likely explanation), it's misleading to say he believes in "eugenics" based on a quick line or two from this doc. Please do feel free to discuss the documentary here: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1285211