tanis,
well put. i agree -- wish it were not so -- but i agree. again, very
well said!
- suzanne
At 12:40 AM 7/6/99 -0700, you wrote:
>A modest proposal
>Let them give birth to the babies with defects then let starving people
>eat them. Apparently we are quite tasty. I attended a workshop/paper
>given by Sandy O neil about the program to exterminate the useless eaters
>in Germany and was struck by how much we claim as disability, when it is
>really humanity. Or inhumanity. How human is it to want life without
>disability?How inhuman to kill a Jew, a lesbian or a person with a
>disability? Its something we have to start thinking about seriously
>because eugenics is not at allabout disability. Its a ruse. It is about
>economics and politics and always has been. It is about who has the power
>to determine normality and the bell curve as wellas who falls outside of
>it. <snip>
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