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. As a member of several "marginalized" groups I can tellyou that
disabled people can do a good job of excluding and making one feel
useless. I experience depression and although I am not suicidal today
there are times when some disability groups ( yes disability run groups)
make me feel like death might be a better option. We internalize
opporession, we externalize oppression, we have horizontal oppression, we
have vertical oppression and we have human oppression. Yes, protect our
rights and take a stand/sit/position. I agree that we must discuss this,
but I disagree that it is about disability.It is about humanity and how
human values are determined but the ruling class. In some countries
lighter or darker skin, height, earlobes, tatoos or hunting skills are
valued moreor less than other differences. We have children in North
America killing other children over designer clothes. Nowonder we
have geneticists looking at the human genome and trying to find our
weaknesses- our weaknesses are self-evident. But politics and economics
must be discussed and must be integrated into any sound analysis of
eugenics-especialy where labs and phamaceuticalcompanies are involved.
Tanis
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