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bmoreisapunkrocktown · 3 days ago

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Eugenics is explicitly tied to the view of children as "things" that someone owns and controls, and until we do away with that idea, we can never be truly free of eugenics.

And that sucks, but there are a lot of people who claim to be anti eugenics who still very rigidly hold on to the idea of the nuclear family and the "right" to have a child, and that is not and never will be an anti-eugenics opinion, nor will it ever lead to any better conditions for disabled children.

#I'm just getting SOOOOO tired of the ways in which people speak on eugenics like it's some big bad boogeyman #And then openly say that disabled children are burdens that you take on if you're a bad person #Like someone on here genuinely honestly said and believed that disabled people should decide whether or not someone gets an abortion #in the event that the fetus is or could be disabled.#Like if someone's fetus tested positive for a genetic issue a group of people with that issue would vote on abortion #This person thought this was an anti eugenics opinion and not a deeply horrific and fucked up away to view someone else's body #Like that person said that someone who would otherwise want an abortion “deserves” to have a disabled child if disabled people agree #I actually think you're a dangerous person on par with a serial killer #That person defined themselves as pro choice bc words don't mean anything anymore #Anyway the problem that I have is how much people truly believe that selective abortion is bad but also that children are things #Like the universal human rights are rights to (clean) water (clean) food (clean) air (safe) shelter and (healthy) babies #That honestly genuinely cannot be more obvious #Also literally everything but children listed is a thing #These are all objects there is no way to put a child on par with objects and also say “defective” objects are bad #It's pretty easy to get that the right to shelter isn't going to include housing with inadequate air and water and also holes in it #It's pretty clear the right to food doesn't included diseased expired or moldy food #“Did you just compare a disabled child to moldy food? That's fucked up”#Yes! Because saying someone is entitled to a child the same way they're entitled to housing is DEEPLY fucked up!#You are not entitled to a child! Children are not “things” full stop and they aren't objects you need to live!#They are actual human beings with needs! Needs that you MUST meet or you can't have them!#Like on some base issue people can acknowledge that you aren't entitled to a gecko.#Like being able to pick up a gecko off the ground doesn't mean it should live in your house #But they cannot extend the idea of “reasonable environments” to children #Also STOP PUSHING FOR DISABLED CHILDREN TO BE IN ABUSIVE HOMES #Like I think my point got jumbled but the fundamental view of eugenics is that disabled children are “broken” and therefore don't have valu #Whether that's value in the nuclear family or value in society #It is simply not acceptable to say 1) “we will force you to value” or 2) No they actually do have value #Because the idea of “value” is inherently flawed and inherently BAD #Because the nuclear family is inherently bad as is capitalism #And I'm worried that y'all are trying to rehab the nuclear family and not destroy it and adjust capitalism instead of discarding it

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