A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    This is the kind of comment you have to reply to if you downvote

    Mine, not so much, but would be nice to know why four people so far have hit the disagree button

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Maybe a lack of capability for nuance?:

        Elon runs a nazi bar… someone’s saying Elon isn’t a eugenicist… Nazis are bad and so are eugenicists… if Elon is bad then why say Elon is not <any kind of bad thing>? down vote!

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        It might be your instance. I know the IKEA shark instance disabled downvotes so if I browse 196, for example, I only see downvotes from other users on my own instance.