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Let's talk about eugenics.
No really. Because it seems like a lot of people wanna start enacting eugenecist policies without calling it for what it is. The culling of 'undesirables'.
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No really. Because it seems like a lot of people wanna start enacting eugenecist policies without calling it for what it is. The culling of 'undesirables'.
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Back in March articles reported on Alabama's state plan for deprioritising people with disabilities. “persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/people-with-intellectual-disabilities-may-be-denied-lifesaving-care-under-these-plans-as-coronavirus-spreads
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https://www.propublica.org/article/people-with-intellectual-disabilities-may-be-denied-lifesaving-care-under-these-plans-as-coronavirus-spreads
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and yes. They actually used the term 'r*tardation' multiple times within the state plan. If you're an 'edgyboy' feel free to tell me how this word isn't used to dehumanise people with disabilities and justify their mistreatment and oppression.
Further reports emerged...
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Further reports emerged...
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Here in the UK care homes for both the elderly and those with severe disabilities such as autism and down syndrome were pressured to attain DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) orders for their charges.
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18357706.coronavirus-do-not-resuscitate-orders-instructed-care-homes/
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https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18357706.coronavirus-do-not-resuscitate-orders-instructed-care-homes/
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and today reports emerge that the Indiana PD will no longer be administering the life-saving drug Narcan to overdose patients. Essentially a further 'do not resuscitate' order.
https://filtermag.org/cops-naloxone-coronavirus/
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https://filtermag.org/cops-naloxone-coronavirus/
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There are others of course but I don't want to turn this is into a 100 tweet thread. I just want people to know this is happening. Institutions and governmental bodies are pushing policies that determine the worth of a person's life based on their 'usefulness' to the state.
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The elderly, the infirm, the disabled, the 'degenerate'.
A life is a life. The state should not get to decide who's life is more important and if they're gonna do it they shouldn't be able to hide behind wordplay.
Call it what it is. Fascistic. Social cleansing. Eugenics.
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A life is a life. The state should not get to decide who's life is more important and if they're gonna do it they shouldn't be able to hide behind wordplay.
Call it what it is. Fascistic. Social cleansing. Eugenics.
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