• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    Why are we even talking about Hitler’s DNA? Out of all the news why this. We are seriously weird.

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      Researchers sequenced his DNA recently from a bloodstained couch cushion, we’ve been getting glimpses into it lately.

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        Presumably the insights are just that he was a human and not a space alien.

        What are they looking for exactly?

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            The Nazis couldn’t have done their genocide without the support of thousands of people, all who made the decision to actively support it for their personal gain, believes, or just plain complacency. What is a genocide supporting gene in one time is a normal suburban life gene in another time.

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            That sounds the kdrama Mouse where they find the serial killer gene, but just because you had it doesn’t mean you’d become one. Sounds like a terrible future and another layer of future discrimination for things beyond people’s control that might just be a carrier.

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        Just a weird topic especially with all this neo-nazism happening in the US government.

        I am not saying it isn’t newsworthy at all of course. It is just the timing is suspect.