Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight

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Bill to make marrying your first cousin illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight
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If those states allow first cousin marrying then yeah, that’s cousin fucker states.

Most of the world doesn’t live in the states man, did you think naming other states was going to offend people? You guys and all your weird hillbilly sex stuff need to get your shit together man. It’s embarrassing to see.

It's legal in most of the world, including most of Europe. I don't think legality is necessarily the greatest guide for how often it actually happens or social attitudes towards it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage

There's a map in there too of prevalence though and United States isn't anywhere close to the most prevelant, it's extremely rare. What's going on down in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium though?

Ya know, there’s definitely some towns where I’m from that have shallow gene pools, not gonna lie. But I live in Alberta, we’re sometimes the Texas of Canada, and sometimes the Alabama.

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Yeah. Pretty much everything south of Calgary and north of Edmonton is Alabama. I’ve lived in every city in the province, and worked in a lot of the towns. It’s pretty crazy in some of the towns here man.

Holy crap, am I reading this right? In Pakistan, more than 50% of marriages are between cousins??

That chart technically includes second degree cousins and any closer relations. So if you don't count second degree cousins it might be less. But yeah there's a tradition of parellel cousin marriage especially in parts of the middle east, north Africa, and south Asia.

Yeah I actually knew that one from when I used to listen to Joe Rogan and Gavin Mcinnes was on there. He's a fucking goof but that fact was disturbing

Dunno about Belgium but Italy, Spain and Portugal have quite communal family structures, at least by European standards. Not necessarily in the living together sense but in the you'll definitely see the whole extended shebang every other holiday sense.

You read any classic novels from England? Marrying cousins is quite normal at one point in human history. I guess it still is in some backward states.

It's not just England. Marrying cousins was considered common practice among royalty and nobles in the past, not "normal" for everyday people.

They would inbreed to try to keep blood "pure", or to keep the family in power, or to sell off their family for power. People knew a long time ago this was bad and caused health problems, but the rich kept doing it because theyre egoistical maniacs.

We don't have monarchs and royalty anymore, we can do away with inbreeding completely. The fact some conservatives still defend it is ridiculous.