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Holy fucking shit. I've never seen anything like this before, it's scary to watch.
Inbred Family - The Whitakers
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Holy fucking shit. I've never seen anything like this before, it's scary to watch.
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I'm waiting for Burt Reynolds to come out of nowhere and shoot them down with a bow and arrow.
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Holy shit.
Reminds me of the episode of X-Files, "Home". I feel for Ray, though. Dude only speaks dog, but he's got a kind face.
Reminds me of the episode of X-Files, "Home". I feel for Ray, though. Dude only speaks dog, but he's got a kind face.
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I was thinking the same thing. That episode seriously creeped me out when I was a kid. Still, I feel bad for people who have to live like this in real life.
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I get this is a shitpost but still, inbreeding is it's at its worst in the more remote areas, and most of Alabama is relatively developed. Georgia and Tennessee are as well, for that matter. In deep Appalachia, many areas are exclusively white or otherwise racially homogeneous with very few people and (prior to the fairly recent improved infrastructure) very little contact with the outside world due to both geographic and economic reasons. It's also a lot of old blood there, families who have been in the area since they stepped off the boat in the 1700s. Your family trees are going to start looking pretty tangled at some point with such isolation and a low population.
I'm not denying there's inbred hicks in Alabama, because there absolutely are -- it's just that Appalachia (and maybe the swamps down in the delta while we're at it) are more deserving of the inbreeding title.
Sperging aside, cases like this are both extremely sad and deeply unsettling. You can't blame the people who were born from an incestuous pairing because they're not the ones at fault, but with this level of disability, both physically and mentally, there's just no integrating into normal society even if they can take care of themselves in a basic sense. It is nice seeing these people shown more as human beings rather than zoo animals for once, though. A lot of media about incest cases are incredibly dehumanizing.
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This entire thing feels extremely fake. The person in the middle looks like they were designed and costumed by someone whose closest brush with reality is watching cartoons. They look like what a coastal elite thinks everyone who doesn't live in Manhattan looks like.
There's also the fact that someone in the comments claims to have dug into the family and find out that they're not brother and sister -in fact, nobody in the family tree is - and the "documentarian" didn't even spell the name right. It's Whittaker, with two Ts.
There's also the fact that someone in the comments claims to have dug into the family and find out that they're not brother and sister -in fact, nobody in the family tree is - and the "documentarian" didn't even spell the name right. It's Whittaker, with two Ts.
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I saw this about a week ago. There’s someone in the comments who knew the family and that the parents were cousins and that they’re actually really nice people.
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These people are just retarded/ developmentally disabled, poor and not well cared for, which sadly isn’t all that unusual. Spinning it as inbreeding from “Odd, WV” is just a marketing ploy to get attention.
The Slanton family is one ladder rung above this.
The Amish have an inbreeding problem, or founders effect, but it mostly shows up in as genetic issues that kill the kids before adulthood and mostly vegetables while alive. So do some middle eastern countries like Saudi Arabia, but the problems manifest as genetic abominations that mostly die at birth or shortly after if not for modern medicine. The Hartley girls were one of the few known non-inbred examples of a genetic issue that is far more prevalent among consanguine parents.
Most cases of true “inbred kids” with genetic conditions or founders effect are just vegetables. This group of unfortunates are just poor uncared for tarded people. (Also shitty parents tend to let small kids get subjected to head injuries and beatings which also cause tarded adults)
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An interesting case study is the effects of inbreeding in Qatar. Cousin marriage has been extremely prevalent there for centuries, predating Islam in fact. Native Qataris are outnumbered in their own country (but to be fair most other residents are still Arab or from Islamic majority countries) and among them about 1/3 have some sort of health problem particularly when it comes to fertility and hearing. If you compare this with Kazakhs and Kirghiz who practice very strict exogamy (to the point where Kazakh women even promote themselves to foreign men) there’s far less health defects. I don’t work in the Health Industry or for the State Department I just enjoy reviewing data and listening to anecdotes.
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Inbreeding usually seems to manifest either as producing vegetables or issues that aren’t quite obvious (as you mentioned infertility, hearing, or mental illnesses, asymmetrical features, chronic health issues)
The Habsburgs are a good example of generations of inbreeding that started off without major problems but then after 200 years of intense incestious marriages got progressively worse till you ended up with lots of dead babies, the “Hapsburg jaw” and the infertile, disabled idiot King Charles II.
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i feel bad for all of em, because they do actually seem like nice kind people, unlike a lot of hillbillies, what surprised me is the other guy who was real quiet, he is nonverbal, he never spoke, he supposedly answered a question in school once orally with a quiet '' yeeahh' but thats it, hes never really spoken , but he did graduate high school, thats not saying a lot b because people who are mildly retarded can often graduate if there is no other additional learning issues other than being slow, but that other dude cant even speak, and poor ray, he never went to school, most of them never did... ray just barks but hes clearly a nice, friendly outgoing, and kind person, i do wish someone could come in and do bi-monthly check ups on them, as well as train them how to bathe, use the toilet, clean house, clean clothes properly, they live in squalor, ray shits his pants because hes was never taught ! none of them had ever been taught how to function ! and their idiot neighbors who frequently threaten, and actually enable the isolation and lack of learning / exposure is not, and obviously has not done the Whitakers any favors . there is no excuse why they do not have regular help, they all need daily living school training and occupational therapy. they are actually friendly people who i think would be open to it if people like this guy who meets up with them could help facilitate and arrange it
unfortunately its not fake the whole family is mentally retarded, among other things. they have been highly inbred over like 5 generations, but unlike their neighbors, they are actually friendly kind people, and being isolated and kept away has just caused them to never learn any basic self care and home making skills, even folks with significant mental retardation / developmental disabilities can be taught with enough persistence and consistency.
there is actually quite a lot of inbred and isolated people in Tennessee, especially in the eastern and north eastern parts, its disgusting and sad.
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I think that the word “inbred” is frequently misused or misinterpreted due to the stigma attached to it, and it’s frequent use as a pejorative. Not all cases of inbreeding are incestuous and not all obviously inbred people were created in depraved circumstances.
I’ve lived all over the United States, and the only areas that I really associate with inbreeding are the rural areas surrounding where I currently live here in Maine. People who I would consider to be “middle class” or wealthier seem to be pretty normal, but I’ve noticed that poor people, especially outside of the Portland area are all super homogeneous looking, in a bad way. Especially the women- they all have the same haglike witchy facial features, idiotic expressions, stringy hair and bad teeth. Initially I assumed that most of these people were just drug addicts. Many are, but even the ones who aren’t still have the same unfortunate features. The ones who are addicted to drugs all seem to have kids with niggers who came up here to peddle their dope in a less competitive market than wherever they came from, so they’re probably doing more to help clear out stale genes than anyone else at this point.
I’ve lived all over the United States, and the only areas that I really associate with inbreeding are the rural areas surrounding where I currently live here in Maine. People who I would consider to be “middle class” or wealthier seem to be pretty normal, but I’ve noticed that poor people, especially outside of the Portland area are all super homogeneous looking, in a bad way. Especially the women- they all have the same haglike witchy facial features, idiotic expressions, stringy hair and bad teeth. Initially I assumed that most of these people were just drug addicts. Many are, but even the ones who aren’t still have the same unfortunate features. The ones who are addicted to drugs all seem to have kids with niggers who came up here to peddle their dope in a less competitive market than wherever they came from, so they’re probably doing more to help clear out stale genes than anyone else at this point.
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I remember this episode of X-Files. Turns out they're pretty in-line with the unpleasantness in Charlottesville