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Lydia X. Z. Brown
autistichoya
Understand this: The US has LONG targeted Black, Native, Chicanx, Boricua, and other negatively racialized people - and especially disabled BIPOC - for forced sterilizations. Justifying eugenic sterilization based on
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Dr. Daniel Grossman
DrDGrossman
This is eugenics.https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1305553553625243648 Our nation has a very dark history of eugenics and reproductive coercion, from the founding of gynecology (https://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513764158/remembering-an
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Jay Dolmage
JayDolmage
Eugenics is not an idea from another time.It’s not a Nazi thing.North American eugenics has been tremendously influential and deadly effective.It’s not an early twentieth-century thing. 1/13 It never went
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Courtney Wade
courtney_erin_w
I've known I have #ADHD for 4 years. I've known I'm #dyslexic & Autistic for 2 months. This semester, I've spent enormous time/energy understanding what this means for me. I
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Jaime Derringer
drderringer
I just covered a little history of eugenics in my behavior genetics class and it never fails to surprise. If you’re in the US and/or think only the Nazis did
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Miss Matty Angel :)
MattyAngelNZ
I want to talk to you all about something. I have done this before but I am doing it again. Plunket, especially its founder. Is and was the cause of
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Mallory Moore
Chican3ry
Next person with a nuclear "All TERFs are literally Nazis" take in my mentions gets put on QT and mocked as thoroughly as I can manage. It turns out that
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David Asscherick
dasscherick
Thread 1 Yesterday, I retweeted a tweet from Robert P. George, a legal scholar, political philosopher, and author from Princeton University, which caused a stir. The tweet said that Margaret
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HJ Giles
HarryJosieGiles
I'm thinking about ways of doing gender in science fiction and fantasy.I've noticed a tendency towards "default gender diversity" in SFF lately: no sex-class system, transness as accepted minority, but
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
It strikes me that latent in the right wing argument that 'providing welfare makes people lazy' is a eugenic argument. Because none of those people say, 'allowing the rich to
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Moon Cat ♧
TheMoon_Cat
Okay, let's get as many people in on this as we can.Let's get to the crux of the issue and find the TRUTH.What is ideal polygny vs monogamy?What is the
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Sarah Wise
MissSarahWise
Been researching theories of ‘urban degeneration’ and found these pics. Children at the Lant St School, Southwark, photographed in 1875. Described in 1904/5 as the ‘lowest type' by a govt
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👠IStandWithTrump ⭐️⭐️⭐️GeneralFLYNNisEXONERATED
superyayadize
How many of her children would Melinda Gates have given up in the name of ‘depopulation’? By what right do the Gates believe they’re the arbiters of which humans live
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bearistotle
gnrosenberg
Recurring pedantic pet-peeve: The Darwin Awards are premised on a foolish misunderstanding of Darwinian theory. Darwin says It doesn't matter if you survive if you don't reproduce *and* it doesn't
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Paul Lombardo
pal8g2015
1) See this thread for concrete evidence of how Trump's touting of 'racehorse theory' is tied to eugenics https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-10-05/trump-debate-white-supremacy-racehorse-theory 2) This is less about &quo
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Zara (on hiatus)
zaranosaur
And here is me on Saturday, tweeting at @UKRI_News about their and the whole infrastructure’s failure to provide specific provision for disabled and chronically ill PhD candidateshttps://twitter.com/zaranosaur/status/1248619969614458882 How hard it
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