Thread by @TheAtulMishra

Elephant in the Room - A thread:

Due to my activities, my FB timeline almost always has a Ketto/Milap ad. Often the ads show a patient struggling to pay medical fees. It’s gut-wrenching to see their condition and heartwarming to see so many people pitching in to help the family

3 days back I saw an ad again. It shook me to the core. A Muslim man had half of his face distorted. The left side of his face had half feet long overgrowth just jutting out of everywhere.

The man painfully narrates his story about how people are scared of him and call him names. The ad video explains that it is a genetic disorder. A rare one at that. And it would need an enormous amount of money to make his face right again.

(After doing my bit) I blamed “centuries of inbreeding” for it. It’s a scientific fact that inbreeding leads to inferior gene pools and thus makes people in the bloodline susceptible to horrible genetic conditions.

Of course, most people took it in the right spirit but many got triggered and took it as an attack on Muslim community. Some people advised me to not be “negative” on “such” kind of posts.

Our political correctness has reached nauseating levels as a society. We will address every possible problem under the son but never the elephant in the room. Inbreeding is a social vice and a bad biological experiment.

Many cultures used to practice inbreeding in ancient history. It was quite common in nobility right till the medieval ages. Now very few cultures practice it. A culture can thrive only when the adherents of it keep revising it with time.