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> You may have missed that Idiocracy is a pro-eugenics film

I kinda see how you got there, but man.

This is the same guy behind Office Space and Bevis and Butthead. He's poking fun at out of touch intellectuals and consumption. Calling it pro-eugenics though...

The whole premise hinges on "dumb" people outbreeding "high IQ" people. The movie isn't about the failure of the education system, consumer compliance, or anything like that. The movie feels pro-eugenics, even if that wasn't the intention, and it's just trying to poke fun at stereotypes.

Idiocracy is only pro eugenics in the same way that any piece of comedy that criticizes anything or takes something to the extreme can be construed as being for the opposite thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons