Prominent Nerd Has A Little Eugenics Oopsie Online
For those that aren't familiar, which was me until last night, Richard Dawkins is a scientist from the UK with 2.8 million twitter followers and this description in the first paragraph of his wikipedia page.
Richard Dawkins, FRS FRSL (born Clinton Richard Dawkins but he changed his name by deed poll)[24] (born 26 March 1941) is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008.
So "super smart nerd" would have done fine there, but you get the point.
Here is why he came to my attention.
Now again, I'm not super familiar with eugenics other than having a basic understanding that it's not great to discuss in reference to humans. So now being 0 for 2 on knowing Dawkins and the subject matter, I did what I always do when I'm too stupid to know something and googled that shit.
Uh oh we have a problem here Richard. That last sentence in the definition above that is "powered by Oxford Dictionaries" the same Oxford you were an emeritus fellow at, whatever the fuck that means, as well as a professor for two decades, is not good.
Let's see how the internet responded to this fellow.
I'm starting to think some of these people saw or already were aware of the same definition of eugenics I googled.
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Yep.
Then it was the tea roses.
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And the pugs weren't safe either.
I could go on for a thousand more of these, and part of the reason is because the super genius himself refuses to take down the tweet, and has since quadrupled down by tweeting out three theories as to why people are being mean to him on twitter now.
Fourth theory here Richard, it's because…
"You're not even a man. You're like an early draft of a man, where they just sketched out a giant, mangled skeleton but they didn't have time to add details like pigment or self respect. You're Frankenstein's monster, if the monster was made entirely of dead dicks." - Ed Webster - Veep