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What sort of a response do you think a movie whose premise is “dumb people have overbred and made the world worse” is intended to provoke?

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That education is a general good?

I'll have to watch it again, all I remember it as was a goofy movie. It didn't make me think "we have to kill all the stupid people".

Actually I'm inclined to think it's more like My Fair Lady and that much of what we call intelligence is down to opportunity and motivation.

Laughter?

Is Dennis the Menace a treatise on corporeal punishment?

If we want to treat Idiocracy as a policy paper, why not take away as a lesson to think beyond merely themselves when the well-educated decide whether to raise children?

The film wasn't about education, it was about genetics, as the intro makes abundantly clear. And the Redditors who get themselves hot and bothered about this film aren't laughing, they're congratulating themselves on being the intelligent ones instead of the dysgenic stupids while crowing about how "Idiocracy is a documentary" -> stupid people are overbreeding.

If most people in the thread have different takeaways, and you're laser-focused on seeing eugenics and superiority (especially when you keep making condescending remarks like "hope this helps" or "work on your reading comprehension"), I don't think that reflects on the film

Yeah, the consensus of a plurality of users of a Silicon Valley startup incubator heavily associated with the right wing is definitely the only opinion that matters about the subtext of a film.

"The people who disagree with my interpretation must be right-wing" says nothing about the film

Good luck in your quest of persuasion-by-bludgeon

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