John. Normalisation was not only a 'nazi' philosophy, they took it a widely
'eugenic' practice in the western world at an exponential scale. But such
philosophy was 'shared' amongst the most cultured western 'intelligentsia's.
In the UK the Fabian society and Winston Churchill. Without it is very
unlikely, for example, that colonial powers would have controlled and
subjugated 'inferior' 'tribal' societies.It is very easy and convenient to
look at the 'links' between Nazism and 'normalisation' theories. It is all
around us, it has always been. Best,
Andy
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From: "John H Noble Jr" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: Nordic / welfare model
> Larry and Helen,
>
> Larry stated, "It sets up the notion of a mainstream normal paradigm
> for appearance, service use and behaviour, that essentially denies
> diversity
> and essence." What is worse, pushed to the extreme and politicized as
> during
> the Third Reich, the idealization of "normal," namely, the genetically
> pure
> German stock, permitted justification for eugenic elimination of
> "subnormals" of every variety. Now that I think about it, Wolfensberger
> may
> well have been influenced in his thinking by the Nazi philosopher Martin
> Heidegger. Do members of the Disability-Research listserv concur, and with
> what evidence?
>
> --JHN
>
>
>
>
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