• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    Is there any value to analyzing his DNA? The idea that evil is genetic is itself feeding into some Nazi ideas about eugenics that are deeply wrong.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah to me that’s the biggest objection… he’s long dead, he has no surviving family that wants good for him to my knowledge. So to me that’s kind of on the same level as, digging up mummies. The evil actions he commited in life don’t really come into play here, and agreed it’s really stupid idea to think that his behavior is genetic.

      Kind of reminds me of when most of the nazi generals swore to have no kids to not carry on their DNA, except one, who said “No I won’t sign that pledge, that’s eugenics which is nazi ideology”.

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      2 days ago

      We learned he had a micro penis, a potent weapon against his neo-nazi fans. The value is already immense.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world
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      3 days ago

      It’s historically interesting to maybe understand who he was as a human being. He’s often painted as a monster but he was a human, and is a warning to all of us what evil human’s can achieve.

      For example, they’re revealed he had Kallmann Syndrome (which can cause a micropenis and undescended testes) - he may have essentially been essentially asexual which may explain some of his life choices and why he was so dedicated to politics and gaining power. They’ve also shown he had high genetic risks for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, as well as ADHD, autism.

      Sensationalist reporting aside, these findings do add something to our understanding of a historical figure who had massive influence on human history.

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      3 days ago

      not really… identifying and/or ruling out genetic origins of diseases isn’t racism.

      my moral objection to this is: we shouldn’t be scanning and storing hitler’s dna; that’s how you end up with Hitler clones.

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        2 days ago

        The sort that would want a Hitler clone would be happy with a direwolf-style pseudo-clone with good marketing.