• agent_flounder@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Though I don’t have all day to devote to determining if these sources line up with your claims and if they’re worth a darn but I did attempt to skim.

    Number 1. I dropped my subscription so I can’t view the article. Can you share?

    Source 2. “The Saviorism of Melinda Gates: Eugenics, Philanthrocapitalism, and the Perils of ‘Western’ Feminisms” . This is a senior honors thesis with some pretty big claims and I’m not sure the paper presents a strong enough argument.

    Mind you, Eugenics is evil dog shit steeped in racism, classism and so on. Fuck that shit.

    Anyway, the author attempts to draw a line between making birth control / family planning available (to third world countries) and eugenics via population control of certain groups.

    Their argument traces a very long and winding path of rather tenuous links along the way and I don’t find it very convincing. It seems more like a student grasping for straws to write a paper.

    They seem to be suggesting that forced sterilization, forced sexual segregation, and similar despicable things are equivalent to ultimately voluntary family planning.

    I see the point. If these programs are intended to control certain populations at a national level driven by eugenics, yeah that’s fucked.

    They may have shown it is plausible that this is what the Gates Foundation has been doing but I don’t think they successfully proved it.

    Source 3. Hush money… “Jeffrey Epstein allegedly tried to extort Bill Gates over extramarital affair” … yeah that’s not awesome.