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Wolf May 17, 2025

“Wellness” is eugenics adjacent. It’s always been about hiding or eliminating the disabled and chronically ill, not about actually helping them.

If you’re sick? It’s your fault. You didn’t try hard enough to get better. You didn’t eat the right foods, take the right potions or exercise enough.

Wellness “influencers” are exceedingly dangerous to disabled and chronically ill people, because they push the idea that we could get better if we ‘really wanted to’.

So why are we making one the US Surgeon General? And what does it mean for those of us living with chronic illness?

https://www.disabledginger.com/p/why-the-new-surgeon-general-pick

#uspoli #caseymeans #rfkjr #fascism #healthsupremacy #wellness #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disability

Why The New Surgeon General Pick Might Be The Most Dangerous One Yet

Wellness "Influencer" Casey Means has been selected as the next US Surgeon General, despite having an inactive medical license. Her viewpoints range from nonsensical to absurdly dangerous.

The Disabled Ginger

Cy May 17, 2025

That and self-help books. Victim blaming, community cheating, guilt-tripping tripe.

Nicole Parsons May 17, 2025

@broadwaybabyto

Tim Mellon comes from a dynasty with a history of eugenics. He's the billionaire patron of both RFK & Trump.

We should flip the script and ask why billionaires are so keen on the eugenics philosophy behind the wellness movement.

Reasons:
1. White supremacy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/18/private-jets-parties-and-eugenics-jeffrey-epsteins-bizarre-world-of-scientists

2. Class warfare
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/opinion/richard-hanania-eugenics-billionaires.html

https://archive.ph/k3gIC

3. Climate denial (fewer people means we can keep using fossil fuels)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/they-talk-about-eugenics-jamie-raskin-sounds-the-alarm-on-the-billionaires-plan-during-town-hall/vi-AA1E7PFa

Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech

A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.

Mother Jones

Broadwaybabyto May 17, 2025

@Npars01 thank you for sharing that! I actually reference white supremacy in the article.

I desperately want people to realize how dangerous these folks are. There’s a big difference between healthy living and “wellness”

Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪May 17, 2025

@Npars01 @broadwaybabyto I also think a that meritocracy is a close relative to white supremacy, and a concept to be weary of. It can help feed the Eugenic monster.

Toni Aittoniemi May 17, 2025

@broadwaybabyto The fascist impulse for #purity didn’t go away with World War 2.

There was some good work done by the UN in Germany, but that was pretty much the end of it.

What we’re seeing now across the western world is the return of that same impulse. Wearing a cross & carrying a yoga mat now — but the same.

Those gas chambers though? They were still unthinkable in 1932. It took 10 years, a dictator, and a world war to get there. And even then they were hidden away in Poland.

Broadwaybabyto May 17, 2025

@gimulnautti and guess who they tested the gas chambers on? The disabled. Of course. The writing is on the wall and we need more people to pay attention!

xs4me2 May 17, 2025

@broadwaybabyto

Guess Trump saw her on TV…

Cats Who Code (cursed)May 17, 2025

@broadwaybabyto ay yi yi. I think it's time to leave. If only that were easier. I've been speaking out against what they're doing, and I realize that puts me in danger, but I don't have it as bad as many other people; I have an "invisible disability," so to speak.

François-Olivier May 17, 2025

@broadwaybabyto
The message I hear, from the people I'm listening to, are about empowering people to improve their lives. I don't see what's wrong with that.

I was chronically ill, for example having weekly migraines. After diet changes, I now have one per year.

I understand from your message that it's bad? That I should continue eating ultra processed food and popping pills to treat the pain, never to improve my condition?

Not all health advocates are the same. Some are toxic, but not all.

Broadwaybabyto May 17, 2025

@fo that’s not at all what I said. You’re welcome to read the article if you want to know my full stance, but I have no problem with a healthy diet. I adopted one myself and it did improve some of my symptoms. Not all.

I am against the “woo”. The crystals and vibrations and snake oil that won’t help anyone, and then when you don’t get better you’re blamed for not trying hard enough.

François-Olivier May 17, 2025

@broadwaybabyto I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. I reacted on the post, not the article.

To me, any agency one can have on his health is great and welcome. But if we label all health advocates as snake oil sellers, it left people being victims of their health, unempowered to improve their conditions.

Broadwaybabyto May 17, 2025

@fo no worries, I suspect you may not have read the article.

For me it’s the different between wellness influencers and health advocates. They aren’t the same, and in my experience those promoting “wellness” are inherently dangerous.

François-Olivier May 18, 2025

@broadwaybabyto
I read the article. In it, I saw a lot of generalisations that I saw in the post that made me react, which still stands.

I'm sorry about your health condition and your experience with your "friends"; they acted as in a cult and it's wrong.

But my experience is totally different and that's why I felt like I had to react.

François-Olivier May 18, 2025

@broadwaybabyto

The experts I'm listening to are saying stuff like: move the needle if you can and here's the biggest thing you can do, free of cost. Or: if you can reduce ultra processed food by one meal a week, that's a win.

Do your best, with compassion.

And if, amongst all the craziness that is our world, they (Means and rfk) remove glyphosate, I will celebrate that. (I'll be pissed if the cost is even less vaccine, but I need some wins)

François-Olivier May 17, 2025

@broadwaybabyto I'm sure you got the message that it was your fault. I'm sure some people phrase it this way. I just think that its not 100% of health experts that talk this way.

Broadwaybabyto May 18, 2025

@fo I didn’t say it was. I firmly believe both RFK Jr and Casey Means will blame the disabled though. They’ve said as much already.