Meanwhile, A White Pill In Poland: National Conservatives Triumph In Election | What is there to like (or dislike) about their policies? Could they be adopted elsewhere?

submitted by Jacinda from vdare.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would ultimately like to see a country adopt a eugenic bias — such as Singapore does.

what does Singapore do?

[–]Jacinda[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not much at the moment but LKY went down a eugenist path in the 1980s and gave out financial incentives for intelligent women to have more babies. his views were ridiculed in the Western media but some Singaporeans at least thought they were a good idea.

This article gives you an idea of his thinking on the subject (and the reaction it provoked)

Sage Pub:

In his National Day speech that year [1983], Premier Lee returned to a favorite theme, i.e., the importance of the quality of human material that has sustained Singapore’s impressive economic growth.’ Coupled with his firm belief in the innate (indeed, hereditary) character of those qualities making for this success, eugenic considera- tions had been for quite a while an important factor in major areas of social policy in Singapore. In previous statements, public as well as private, Lee had been utterly explicit about his uncompromising elitism and his conviction that the fate of Singapore rested with an elite group of “no more than 5 per cent” who were “more than ordinarily endowed physically and mentally." This was not merely ideological cant, but was consistently carried over into social policy and most vividly typified by an elaborate tracking (streaming) system in the republic’s educational set-up.

[Snip...]

To underline the government’s seriousness in this matter, Dr. Coh Keng Swee (Deputy Prime Minister at the time) unveiled to the Singapore public a package of countermeasures to reverse these trends. These included: a computer dating service; fiscal and other incentives for graduate women to bear more children; love-boat cruises (all expenses paid) for eligible graduate singles in the civil service; special admissions criteria to the National University of Singapore (NUS) to even out the male-female student ratio; calls to NUS academicians to investigate the single graduate problem, and also the introduction of courtship classes in the undergraduate curriculum to hone the would-be suitor’s skills, etc. [Cont...]

The whole thing is worth reading.

Here is a Reddit thread where (presumably) Singaporeans discuss the subject.

Not a representative sample, but mostly they think it's a good thing.