We should be angrier about the content of the Epstein files. There should be more anger about applications in Immigration and Customs Enforcement camps, the foster care system and stigmatizing kids who age out of the system.
We should be angrier about the wealthy stealing the autonomy of babies and children before they are even old enough to know what autonomy means.
This country has a history of cruelty at the hands of the animalistic menagerie of the top 1%; however, the elite don’t have the right to monopolize our freedoms.
“Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues,” author James Morcan wrote in his book “Debunking Holocaust Denial Theories.”
In the past three months, more than three million documents regarding Jeffrey Epstein have been released by the Department of Justice, with millions more being held due to their grotesque nature. However, there is a revelation, and an almost “uncanny valley” inhumane behavioral aspect of the files revealed by reading with a historical lens. Epstein discussed eugenics, genetic engineering, cloning and his own personal “baby farm” in detailed discussions akin to the tactics and guide of enslavers.
In the PDF file EFTA01003966 of DataSet 9 in the Epstein Library, a 2018 email correspondence between Epstein and Bitcoin developer and researcher Bryan Bishop discussed funding for experimental “designer babies” and “cloning.”
Epstein believed in transhumanism, which is defined by Britannica as a “philosophical and scientific movement that advocates the use of current and emerging technologies, such as genetic engineering, cryonics, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology, to augment human capabilities and improve the human condition.”
The theory was created by Julian Huxley, an evolutionary biologist, in 1957. Further explained on Britannica, Huxley believed it was “possible for social institutions to supplant human evolution in refining and improving the human species”
Epstein not only believed in Huxley’s theory but also actively invested in a future based on it. He believed in “perfecting the human race” using his own genetics.
In the article “Epstein’s sinister plot to seed the human race with his DNA,” The Telegraph details the recent “revelations” that Epstein had plans to make the 7000-acre Zorro Ranch, in New Mexico, a facility where he “would ‘seed’ children with his own DNA.”
On top of this, the Telegraph found that Epstein had engaged in various email exchanges about the generic inferiority of African Americans.
In one email exchange with German cognitive scientist Joscha Bach, Epstein implies wanting to genetically engineer African Americans to be “smarter.” Catalogued as a PDF file FTA00823256 in Data Set 9, Bach engages in a series of emails about genetically altering motor layer development “to make Blacks smarter,” also saying statistics show “Black kids in the U.S. have slower cognitive development.”
Nothing about this language is surprising. Epstein is a textbook eugenicist and human trafficker. His ambitions echoed many of the rich white enslavers of the antebellum period.
Despite being mentioned over 5,000 times, President Donald Trump denies his involvement with Epstein’s trafficking. The irony of this increases when he is mentioned as having great involvement in Epstein’s trafficking organization, including alleged sexual assaults, in the released documents.
The claims of sexual abuse are believable, not only because of the details of the Epstein files but also due to the echoes of historical context, including abuse tactics used by enslavers, such as forced intercourse of male and female enslaved Africans for their own voyeuristic gratification.
Detailed in the 2024 article, “The master whished to reproduce: slavery, forced intimacy, and enslavers’ interference in sexual relationships in the antebellum South, 1808–1861,” published in the American Nineteenth Century History journal, slave owners would force enslaved men and women to reproduce to grow their wealth.
Stigmatized by the “Jezebel” and “Brute” stereotypes, African American women and men of the antebellum period were forced to fit negative archetypes of their own violation; those who freed themselves were often not believed when sharing their narratives of slavery’s cruelty. The survivors and victims of Epstein have gone through the same ridicule.
The idea of controlled genetic manipulation and “selective breeding” to create “super humans” has been profoundly expressed by the 1%, with notable billionaires such Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel investing in gene therapy and genetic engineering. We are also seeing pushes for pseudo-eugenicist thinking in the U.S. legislature.
Enslaver Calvin Smith ran a breeding plantation with the specific purpose of creating biracial children due to them being sold at higher prices than their monoracial Black counterparts. These children were created and sold for “aesthetic” purposes.
While it’s believed Epstein’s desire to perfect the human race never came to fruition, there are documents in the files that may point to an opposite truth. In a decrypted journal of one of Epstein’s victims, it’s learned that the underage victim went through multiple pregnancies, along with listing at least 25 assailants involved in her abuse.
Epstein has become a representation of the systematic abuse of child sex trafficking, also named the modern slave trade, which involves an estimated 50 million victims. He was also not the first to be capable of such heinous crimes. Historically, Epstein would even be considered a drop in a bucket of human traffickers in America’s heritage, with names like Isaac Franklin and John Armfield also coming to mind.
Our lives are ours, our power is ours. Our children are ours to protect, not theirs to exploit.
Nyla Gilbert is a junior studying journalism at Ohio University. Please note the opinions expressed in this column do not represent those of The Post. Want to talk to Nyla Gilbert about her column? Email her at ng972522@ohio.edu.
