Eugenics - Tumblr Posts
Medical debt is one of many cruelties this violent society that the United States exacts upon its citizens.
Terror is having to sacrificially choose between either losing one's home by selling it or seeking healthcare that charges you with hidden fees, a debt that can lead to the loss of one's home through legal foreclosure.
This is an experience of many setbacks, from long wait times for specialists who don't know what to do, to setting up monthly payment plans for the accrued debts in question.
This society is cruel, cold, and leaves you just enough crumbs to survive sickly, but never enough to actually ever live.
All empires end, and certainly will this one, too. You can only cage people literally and metaphorically until life itself has no meaning under a system built on ill-gotten gains.
The thing is, I constantly think about eugenics. Like, not about killing disabled people but what we could do as a society to prevent those disabilities to even happen. In my opinion, having a child as a autistic person feels like voluntarily giving an inferior life to someone. Not only I'd potentially have a autistic child (which by itself would be a whole life of suffering to the child too) but also I'd probably be unable to properly be an emotional support like humans naturally deserve. I fully support getting help to autistic people like me but I honestly also hope that someday people start to do some kind of research about a possible way to prevent autism from even passing
If I was to get married, I'd lose my right to the majority of my disability benefits and my partner would be obligated to either provide for me economically or leave me. And this is not a weird senseless attempt to punish disabled people, but eugenics in action, dating back to the years where it was highly unacceptable to have children outside marriage.
PSA: Google and Autism Speaks are continuing their collaborative effort to create a genomic database on autism.
Yes, you read that right.
On the eve of Autism Acceptance Month, Google, the most widely used search engine, is teaming up with Autism Speaks to collect and send data to researchers in order to essentially “eliminate” autism. I don’t think I can understate how eugenicist this is. It is genocide by definition.
It is imperative that we speak up about this. Every autistic person (including myself) know that Autism Speaks is a hate group in all but name.
There’s not much to say about this except it is VERY wrong.
Nothing about us without us. Listen to autistic people.
(autistic people, feel free to add. allistics are encouraged to reblog but don’t be clowns)
as some1 who's mixed [british and african] i hav my own opinions on this, i don't think the ppl who do this r trying 2 look black is the thing i think they r trying 2 look mixed, or rather what *they* think a mixed person looks like, they r trying 2 look "ambiguous" they r trying 2 get this "mixed look" that they will partake in eugenics and go hav sex w/ a black man in hopes their kid will hav 2, idk tbh i feel like a lot of ppl 4get that mixed specific racism is a thing and so try 2 act like racism that's more directed against ppl who r mixed w/ black is racism only against monoracial black ppl and don't mention mixed ppl at all, even in the poc community sometimes this is a problem, like if i hav 2 c 1 more youtube vid of a monoracial person in america talking abt how "mixed ppl aren't allies" and "mixed ppl r just the same as white ppl" 1] not even acknowledging that not every person is mixed w/ white and 2] demonising those of us who r like we're watered down and not "rly poc" im gonna lose my shit, [not abt the vid linked in the thread, haven't watched bc i already know what blackfishing is just talking abt how every1 is treating this so far like its only racist against monoracial black ppl] idk u guys just seem 2 only acknowledge that mixed ppl can experience racism when it's ppl talking abt the mixed baby fetish and even then most ppl only talk abt it thru the lense of it being bad 4 monoracial black ppl and not 4 yk the mixed baby, u guys just seem 2 stop caring we exist and go from almost acknowledging what we go thru 2 demonising us as soon as we hit puberty, bc that's when u start saying "we're just as bad as white ppl" when we hav 2 deal w/ the fetishisation of our very existence and girls doing fukin mixed face 2 try 2 look like a cut and paste version of us that was fed 2 them by media and then don't believe us when we say we're mixed bc we don't hav that mythical "mixed look" that never exists outside of a white woman trying 2 look like us and then any of us who r 2 "white passing" get called racist by the same white ppl who do this shit just bc we're saying that we're mixed bc we fuking r if u wanna talk abt the racism against monoracial black ppl, great, amazing, pls do that but don't fucking come on here and act like the racism that we as mixed ppl face is only against monoracial ppl, not only is it pushing us 2 the side it just boosts this idea that we don't experience any form of racism when we do and it makes things legit harder 4 us, also i c u guys dragging Arianna [which don't get me wrong i agree] but its also worth mentioning the Kardashians who imo r even worse when it comes 2 this and popularising and normalising this shit, not 2 mention all the ppl on tiktok glueing their eyelids 2 look asian or mixed w/ asian
people wanna be black so bad..
Nah, we're bringing out the drill for this one.
Oh so he’s doing eugenics now
"terminally ill people should be allowed to choose to die if they feel it is the best decision for them" and "euthanasia can easily become eugenics" and "we should provide support for depressed and suicidal people" are statements that can come into conflict but should all be respected
Wait! Wait, wait wait!
“A person who believes in eugenics wants to influence or control other people’s reproductive choices based on whose genes they think should be passed on to “improve the human race.””
But? But didn’t OP? Didn’t OP try to control other people’s reproductive choices based on whose genes they think should be passed on to ‘Improve the human race’?
This might be considered controversial but I really don’t care
I remember seeing this post on radblr a while ago (if you know the op please don’t tag them. It’s possible they changed their opinion and I don’t want them getting unnecessary hate) basically saying in the name of bodily autonomy it’s okay for women to abort disabled children
This could be my personal feelings as a disabled woman but it felt very similar to eugenics
If you’re pregnant and the minute you find out your child isn’t “perfect” you decide to abort it that’s not okay
What’s going to happen if they don’t pick up on a disability or the child develops a disability later on in life or are in some kind of accident that leaves the child disabled
Committing to child means committing to everything that can possibly happen
Your love for your child you’re bringing into the world should be unconditional regardless
I’m sorry if this is not the right thing to say
It just really hurt and was on my mind tonight.
the worse climate disaster gets, the more you’ll see closet eugenicists start to advocate for letting people die. you need to be prepared to combat the ideology wherever you see it, because it’s only going to get worse and worse Read everything having to do with climate disaster critically. If the central argument underlying what’s being said is that the death of disabled and/or racialized people is inevitable, natural, or desirable– that’s a fascist.
they might be appear to be a garden variety republican or liberal or even a leftist at first, but know that if that argument is being made, their underlying ideology is one of supremacism, and given additional climate stress, they will become more blatant about it.
Fox News is extremely racist. Here are six minutes of examples.
Open Letter To Nukapedia
I have been informed me posting to tumblr is being assumed to be me trying to incite shit & assuming bad faith. As this was not my intention, here's the little good faith I have left:
I wrote that last message with the intention of leaving due to finding the situation unconscionable, while on a call with my disabled coauthor and friends who were equally as distressed as I was that someone like that had been not only allowed back into the server, but had been allowed to claim they had not said anything eugenicist. I then went to leave the sever only to discover it was no longer in my list - meaning I'd been banned before I could even leave. And then I had to learn the reason for my ban from a third party.
So my assumption was Not GreatTM. I was a little emotionally compromised! Let me elaborate as to why:
That user had called disabled children an 'empty resource sink' and a detriment to society in response to an ongoing conversation (one that I freely admit I had gotten frustrated with - what appeared at the time & what I am now almost certain was - sealioning - and thus been rude, and apologized for that) where I was attempting, in good faith, to explain contemporary fight for disability rights in the United states. I had previously mentioned IN SPECIFIC growing up autistic and seeing the murder of fellow autistic children being called 'mercy killings'. This user had previously in the course of this conversation specifically mentioned 'high functioning conditions' such as Asperger's being different from ones they considered debilitating.
(Its notable that this diagnosis has since folded into ASD, and with the name being considered controversial due to being named after Hans Asperger.)
This user then said that the 'mercy' of 'allowing' some people who 'could not function' to die was morally correct TO THE FACE OF A SPECED AUTISTIC PERSON WHO HAD JUST MENTIONED PEOPLE LIKE THEM BEING KILLED SPECIFICALLY.
From my perspective this is not even a fucking dog whistle, it is a whistle at best, more like a bullhorn. It is full on mask off 'actually people (who you say are like you) SHOULD die, if they cant ~contribute~'. It is directly saying people like me & my coauthor are justifiable losses. It is rhetoric which has directly killed people like me in recent memory.
It is so viscerally horrifying and evil of a rhetoric that I immediately felt their restored presence was an allowance. Even this I might have taken in good faith - except they (and the user supporting them) had Literally Stated What They Said Was Not Eugenicist. A mod Saw This, said 'drop the topic' - it is not a topic to drop, from your own commented policy after the first incident and for the safety of others, it is a instant ban situation - and moved on silently. From my perspective this was a giant red flag saying 'this is now a eugenicist bar'.
I am not exactly inclined to extend good faith when the fact is, we are currently in a wave of ableism rhetoric from the transphobic alt right especially against autistic and mentally ill people.
A former US president is well known for having mocked Serge Kovaleski's disability, and when then-12-year-old JJ Holmes protested this, he encouraged his followers to harass them, resulting in people shoving the boys wheelchair & sexually harassing his mother. Autism Speaks spokespersons talked about wanting to murder their children while they were still in the room. Dr. Phil openly platformed the attempted killer & mother of Izzy Stapleton just 10 years ago. We still face organ transplant discrimination, immigration discrimination, and we STILL to this day are being tortured in ABA 'therapy' that is based on the same attitudes that Ivar Lovaas's applied in his 'Feminine Boys Project', a series of abusive conversion tactics which led to the suicide of Kirk Murphy - a 'doctor' who once said "[autistics] are not people in the psychological sense."
That same former president was just alleged by his nephew to have said "Those people [...] The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die."
How am I SUPPOSED to assume, in this political climate, good faith from 'empty resource sink' being allowed to be defended in any capacity, as a disabled person? Or hell, just as a person with disabled friends & loved ones. As a human being.
It is not that I am extending bad faith to your platform, I do not feel safe on your platform.
My coauthor did not feel safe enough to join your platform, my girlfriend would not feel safe on your platform, my friends do not feel safe on your platform. My THERAPIST read these messages and recommended I do not ever come back to your platform! I did not post on tumblr with the intention of causing problems but of protecting fellow disabled people from harm.
I have OCD & actively avoid posting issues outside of private chats because I have severe paranoia about being part of internet pile-ons in any capacity, to the point I STILL have avoided showing any user names or profile pictures. Yet this was still such an egregious situation that I felt I would be actively allowing people to come to harm if I didn't speak up.
I am not returning to the discord. I no longer feel comfortable talking about disability or queer representation in fallout in a space where people brushed off that rhetoric, and acted like it was an overreaction to be horrified - even momentarily. I am frankly unsure if I would feel safe even if everyone who did so was banned.
If you genuinely think I am overreacting, acting in bad faith - understand this comes from TWO DECADES of seeing people like me killed by caretakers every day and then hearing THAT & seeing people defend it.
Postcomment:
Hi. This is Ren, second author of Caldera and multiply disabled young adult. I proofread and editted this post as well as being present during a lot of this situation - either from being the person Cilantro stepped back to when they recognized they were getting emotionally intense about a situation or being on call with them during the incident in question, and I want to make some things clear.
I am absolutely Furious at the way my peers and loved ones have been treated during this time. Both directly in nukapedia itself and in the, haha, fallout that has followed.
You might ask why I have not been directly involved if I feel so strongly about it, the answer is simple. My absence Was an attempt at good faith. Through Cilantro's talks on what the atmosphere was like, I learned there would almost definitely be situations that lead me to feeling defensive, stressed and frustrated- emotions I admit to struggling to process. So I made the executive decision that I did not feel I could safely belong there and stayed to the sidelines.
Cilantro has never claimed perfection- and has multiple times apologized for allowing emotional reactions to lash into conversations and stepped away. And it is infurating to see their (and several other of our peers and friends) characters attacked like this. Own up to your own failures in protecting your members, or it will not be just our trust you have lost.
terfs are straight up calling for trans genocide now repeating eugenicist rhetoric. this is where the discourse is at now
https://twitter.com/setoacnna/status/1533204551251132417?s=21&t=sFkD0S7_xgvuvul6pW0DJg
