Kong Weike, member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and direct descendent of fourth-century BC sage Confucius, proposed to the legislative body last week that China exempt PhD-holders from the country's population control policies.
Instead of the apocryphal 'one-child policy,' Kong suggested that citizens with doctoral research degrees be subject to a 'three-child policy' instead - although he also added maybe they could have even more than three children if they wanted.
China's biggest demographic problem, by Kong's reasoning, isn't too many people but too many 'low quality' people. So long as one partner in the couple holds a doctoral degree, he argued, they should be actively subsidized by the government to let them have three or more children.
Doing so, he said, could "optimize the quality of the nation's population."
Eugenics has, unsurprisingly, earned itself rather a bad wrap over the years, and Kong's ideas were widely met with a mix of ridicule and revulsion online.
"If this delegate is so concerned with reason the quality of the population, why didn't he suggest investing in education, raising everyone's level of education and letting all Chinese children receive a good education?"
Another was considerably less diplomatic: "Kong is proof that talented people like Confucius can have retarded offspring."
Kong Qingdong, another direct descendent of Confucius and a professor at Peking University, incited a backlash in 2012 when he said that "Hongkongers are bastards, dogs and thieves" on national television after the territory's residents dared to criticize a mainland visitor who violated MTR regulations by eating noodles in a subway carriage. Coming from a man attacked Kung Fu Panda as "cultural invasion" and said "the more people like Steve Jobs who die the better," we really shouldn't have been surprised.
Basically, the whole Kong clan has gone seriously wrong.
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