Disabled people were among the first victims of the Nazis.
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Thinking about it, it doesn't make sense that they would be open about doing such a thing. There were people who objected. Those people were called sentimental and unreasonable. And of course the murders would expand.
The killing centers were disguised as care facilities. Sometimes they billed families for months after their relative was dead.
@futurebird Canadian hospitals do things like that to Indigenous people, to this day.
i have a book about this, from 1987, by Dara Culhane Speck, called "An Error In Judgement: The Politics Of Medical Care In An Indian/White Community", which is an account of one case among far too many where Indigenous people contacting the white medical system results in racist violence. people die under mysterious circumstances and those responsible refuse to explain what happened. people are airlifted to far away, unfamiliar hospitals without their consent or knowledge, while they're unconscious, and after they wake up, are released with no way to get home. newborn babies being immediately put up for adoption without consent.
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Unfortunately I've heard people say that our Stephen Miller could not have such evil ambitions because he is a part of a regime that is too petty and criminal and the nazis were more "ideological"
I think this is a troubling trend where people believe that the nazis were "at least efficient" which is just ingesting their old propaganda uncritically.
@futurebird @emilychwiggy nah, Stephen Miller is a true believer. To a first approximation, Trump believes in nothing.
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What are the odds that DHS and ICE are going to do the same thing with the hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans they are going to be sticking in their death camps?
@Quasit @futurebird @emilychwiggy
What are the odds that they haven't been, already?
Who are the people in all those unmarked graves behind that one prison in Jackson?
And how many more are there?
Considering we're dealing with people who traffic children for all that Epstein stuff, I don't think we can rule anything out when asking what ELSE they traffic people for-- on all these planes flying with their transponders turned off, passing prisoners to places that still have overt slavery, like Mauritania. I put nothing past these monsters. Nothing. The sort of people who double-tap elementary schools and hospitals... There is no line they won't cross.
How many Mengeles and worse could be operating right now that we'd never hear about? And how many more, going back over the years?
In Germany most people didn't know what was happening until the camp were liberated and the footage came out. Oh, they probably heard rumors but they shrugged it off. Nowadays, we can't even trust photos anymore, what kind of coverage would it take for people to face it, much less do something about it?
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@Quasit @futurebird @emilychwiggy
What are the odds that they haven't been, already?
Who are the people in all those unmarked graves behind that one prison in Jackson?
And how many more are there?
Considering we're dealing with people who traffic children for all that Epstein stuff, I don't think we can rule anything out when asking what ELSE they traffic people for-- on all these planes flying with their transponders turned off, passing prisoners to places that still have overt slavery, like Mauritania. I put nothing past these monsters. Nothing. The sort of people who double-tap elementary schools and hospitals... There is no line they won't cross.
How many Mengeles and worse could be operating right now that we'd never hear about? And how many more, going back over the years?
In Germany most people didn't know what was happening until the camp were liberated and the footage came out. Oh, they probably heard rumors but they shrugged it off. Nowadays, we can't even trust photos anymore, what kind of coverage would it take for people to face it, much less do something about it?
@violetmadder @Quasit @futurebird @emilychwiggy (Several camps in Germany were close to cities, e.g. Dachau. Furthermore, inmates were sent to work in various places where they were in contact with civilians. It seems difficult to believe Germans were completely unaware that weird things were happening. It is however true that the mass killing centers were placed further east and outside of cities.)
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Thinking about it, it doesn't make sense that they would be open about doing such a thing. There were people who objected. Those people were called sentimental and unreasonable. And of course the murders would expand.
The killing centers were disguised as care facilities. Sometimes they billed families for months after their relative was dead.
There is something to learn from how defunding state care for disabled people played an important role in winning doctors and nurses over to the idea that just killing these people would be a good idea.
Funding was cut for state care facilities and they became miserable places. Patients acted out and a gulf grew between those providing care and their patients. Meanwhile propaganda suggested that these people would be better off dead.
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There is something to learn from how defunding state care for disabled people played an important role in winning doctors and nurses over to the idea that just killing these people would be a good idea.
Funding was cut for state care facilities and they became miserable places. Patients acted out and a gulf grew between those providing care and their patients. Meanwhile propaganda suggested that these people would be better off dead.
How are people turned into problems? Into "burdens on society" into objects of contempt?
I think about how people get annoyed and angry when a sick homeless person is on the subway. Yes it's annoying that this guy is sprawled out over 3 seats, or yelling and making noise, but why has this happened. Did he choose to come and make my commute more difficult? Or is this the only place he can lay down for a bit where it isn't outside and freezing?
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How are people turned into problems? Into "burdens on society" into objects of contempt?
I think about how people get annoyed and angry when a sick homeless person is on the subway. Yes it's annoying that this guy is sprawled out over 3 seats, or yelling and making noise, but why has this happened. Did he choose to come and make my commute more difficult? Or is this the only place he can lay down for a bit where it isn't outside and freezing?
@futurebird "burdens on society" = They do not make money (or work for) Billionaires
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How are people turned into problems? Into "burdens on society" into objects of contempt?
I think about how people get annoyed and angry when a sick homeless person is on the subway. Yes it's annoying that this guy is sprawled out over 3 seats, or yelling and making noise, but why has this happened. Did he choose to come and make my commute more difficult? Or is this the only place he can lay down for a bit where it isn't outside and freezing?
@futurebird And Brian Kilmeade didn’t lose his job for saying it.
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@futurebird And Brian Kilmeade didn’t lose his job for saying it.
I see articles claiming he "apologize" but I don't see how you can apologize for:
“Or involuntary lethal injection… or something. Just kill ‘em.”
We know what you really think, my guy. He should have been fired.
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@futurebird And Brian Kilmeade didn’t lose his job for saying it.
I often think about a curse that would cause everyone in the world to look at Brian Kilmeade the way that people often look at homeless people. As if your whole life means less than my temporary comfort.
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