Is mainstream media mockery of marriage between cousins a PSYOP?
Hold on to your pitchforks, folks, just hear me out.
Growing up in the 90s and 00s, I remember seeing or hearing a lot of jokes about inbred hillbillies.
For example, Cletus in The Simpsons is shown as an idiotic, ugly simpleton.
He is husband to Brandine Spuckler, and it is heavily implied throughout the series that they are in some way related (possibly brother and sister, although other relationships have also been mentioned, such as Brandine calling Cletus her son), meaning that they are in an incestuous relationship and them having children together counts consanguinity.
I don't recall many jokes about inbred arabs or Muslims, though.
And if you look at the stats, it turns out that marriage between cousins is surprisingly common in some places.
In the Arab world, the practice of marrying relatives is common. According to the Centre for Arabic Genomic Research, between 40% and 54% of UAE nationals' marriages are between family members, up from 39% in the previous generation. Between 21% and 28% of marriages of UAE nationals were between first cousins.
Anyway, I was recently chatting with a Saudi-born Canadian and he raised the issue of consanguinity.
He doubts the idea that marriage and procreation between cousins leads to genetic abnormalities.
It got me to thinking, how do I know that consanguinity is as genetically dangerous as I have been led to believe?
And, if it is as dangerous as some people say, then why would western countries want to allow mass immigration from places where this occurs regularly?
Either way are being psyopped on an enormous scale, and consanguinity isn't the problem we've been led to believe...
OR
Western countries are being inundated by genetically-[redacted] people who engage in genuinely dangerous breeding practices.
Out of the two possibilities on the table, I'm not sure which one is more disturbing.
Over to you.