Posted on 09/02/2023 12:24:37 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
Tech news magazine Wired published a story, and made it an editor's pick, on Thursday that claimed it was "immoral" to want children who share one's genetic makeup and claimed that reducing biologism could be a way to "push back against the biological essentialism built into white supremacy."
In the intro, the author rejects the notion that having a biological child creates a hardwired relationship and bond between the parent and child, and that "this prioritization of biological inheritance ('biologism,' as some call it) has recently become unsettled."
Writer Leo Kim said that due to the advancement in modern practices in gestational surrogacy, or what some consider renting a woman's womb, and the ability to screen embryos for genetic abnormalities, the preference for biological children "can feel downright ancient—a vestigial remnant of a different epoch, a fossil no longer animated by the same moral intuitions that gave it gravity in the past."
When looking into the idea of genetic testing the article notes the "horrors of state-sponsored eugenics," but that the ability to genetically screen embryos for disease and determine traits is "minimal in scope." He suggests that " if biology is to be a factor at all, it should only be considered insofar as it prevents harm and suffering."
In one section Kim points to a study by sociologist Dororthy Roberts who says that “sharing genetic traits seems less critical to Black identity than to white identity. The notion of racial purity is foreign to Black folk" and that having biological children is "built into white supremacy."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
I discontinued my subscription to “Wired” back in the mid 90’s when they started injecting leftist ideology into their articles.
I’d tell them to sterilize themselves but they’re probably already doing that through sex change surgery.
Sigh. Woke turns everything into shi...er...Dorkbamastuff.
Even tech pretebnders.
I did the same thing with Wired and several other publications, and for your same reason.
“pretebnder”
Don’t ask. I don’t know, either. ;-)
The “final solution” to “racism” issue is coming soon....
Same. Surprised Wired is still around, TBH.
“I discontinued my subscription to “Wired” back in the mid 90’s when they started injecting leftist ideology into their articles.”
That’s exactly when and why I did so as well. I couldn’t get through an article without them shoehorning it in, regardless of how irrelevant.
Whoever wrote that had/has very immoral parents.
...Leftist ideology is being injected everywhere except my carburetor these days.
Tech mag is not my god so please excuse me while I disregard Tech’s ignorant opinion.
Baby robots all around!
“... biological essentialism built into white supremacy”
Isn’t that essentialism built into all reproduction? Truthfully, I don’t know what the sentence means.
When everything is white supremacy, nothing is. See, if you call everything white supremacy, there’s no way you can really step it up from there.
I am all in favor of encouraging liberals not to breed.
Wired is weird.
MMMOkay.
It’s the 1970s again. Where are my faded bellbottom jeans, man? Have you seen my platform shoes? Or are earth shoes in again?
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