Thread by @MattyAngelNZ, I want to talk to you all about something. I have done [...]

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 a lot of suffering among people in the disabled community. Or as they labeled it. The undesirables.

Plunket never apologized.

We are at a time right now where we are no longer celebrating the racists and evil people of history. And although Plunket has rebranded to talk about the Maori Midwives involved in its founding

They haven't covered the other dark part. https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-national/plunket-re-brands-honour-maori-midwives

Plunket re-brands to honour Maori midwives

Plunket shined a light on an untold part of its history when the organisation unveiled its new-look branding on Monday. The Plunket Society was...

https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-national/plunket-re-brands-honour-maori-midwives

They put on there website nice things about their founder. But the truth is, because of him New Zealand had many decades of darkness. In fact he almost had sterilization legalized.

He haunts this country today.

Below I will link to things to show you the damage this man did.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/07-05-2019/plunkets-founder-was-an-awful-person-obsessed-with-eugenics/#:~:text=Early%20Plunket%20Society%20writings%20include,as%20defective%20shouldn't%20reproduce.

Plunket's founder was an awful person obsessed with eugenics

Emily Writes speaks to researcher Leimomi Oakes about Plunket's dark past and the despicable views of its founder Sir Frederic Truby King. Since becoming a parent six years ago and being introduced...

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/07-05-2019/plunkets-founder-was-an-awful-person-obsessed-with-eugenics/#:~:text=Early%20Plunket%20Society%20writings%20include,as%20defective%20shouldn't%20reproduce

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/101587899/flashback-nz-almost-legalises-eugenic-sterilisation

Flashback: NZ almost legalises eugenic sterilisation

A slightly harder push would have seen the law pass.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/101587899/flashback-nz-almost-legalises-eugenic-sterilisation

https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/7xw9gb/the-dark-unknown-story-of-eugenics-in-new-zealand

The Dark, Unknown Story of Eugenics in New Zealand

How a powerful group of New Zealanders attempted to wipe out 'mental defectives' and improve the white race.

https://www.vice.com/en_nz/article/7xw9gb/the-dark-unknown-story-of-eugenics-in-new-zealand

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/201823436/eugenics-the-story-of-a-really-bad-idea

Eugenics: the story of a really bad idea

Did you know that after the First World War New Zealand established an official eugenics board? We tend to think of eugenics as being something the Nazis invented but really it was embraced all...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/201823436/eugenics-the-story-of-a-really-bad-idea

Developing a Nursing Speciality - Plunket Nursing 1905 - 1920

http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/77

There are more, Many many more...

Its time we stop celebrating Truby King. Its time Plunket apologizes for its past abuse of deeming children unfit and undesirable... and for its early preaching of his Work. And its time we stop celebrating anything to do with this evil man.

I apologize for this long thread.

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