• YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really get the sneer here, he mentions population control at a time when it was widely believed that overpopulation was a looming problem

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        No, but Singer does mean stuff like “supply birth control to people who don’t have birth control” and “make them rich and educated so they have fewer kids” which eugenics or not is a real policy response by governments which had to deal with famine pursued