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Yes. We live in a kind of reflexive terror of a regime that has been dead for the better part of a century and we must not look at certain parts of reality, lest they be true, because those people did something terrible related to that field of inquiry. There comes a time when crouching in silence waiting for a dogwhistle to be blown that nobody else can hear becomes paranoia.

It would be more reasonable and compassionate to identify genetic risk factors so that the people in question could make more informed choices in their lives, but instead we must keep them (and ourselves) ignorant lest, somewhere in the dark, a reel of Triumph of the Will begins spinning all on its own.




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