Conservative billionaire Gina Rinehart called for the sterilization of the poor today, arguing that the only way to alleviate poverty is to stop the “underclasses” from multiplying.
In a video uploaded to her official YouTube account, the Australian mining heiress said that income inequality is caused by differences in intelligence, and eugenics is the only answer…
I soo envy the talented bastard who wrote this one!
The comments do my head in. Do people still not recognise The Onion’s schtick when they see it?
Hey, it sucked me in too, at first.
I guess it’s too easy to imagine Rinehart saying that.
Remember when Andrew Bolt sued a parodist on the grounds that the unspeakably cruel and irrational remarks of the fake Bolt were too easily confused with the real thing?
And here I was hoping Gina was going to go all lefty – after being awarded an Arts Grant from the Australia Council Literature Fund to continue to produce poetic wonders.