Disabled people were among the first victims of the Nazis. What I did not know was that this program of eugenics through murder was very furtive at first. They knew that "do gooders" and "the church" would object to killing disabled people, often children just to save money.
They were careful not to have too many deaths at any one center at first. But as the stress of war created further chaos they become more open about these murders.
Thinking about it, it doesn't make sense that they would be open about doing such a thing. There were people who objected. Those people were called sentimental and unreasonable. And of course the murders would expand.
The killing centers were disguised as care facilities. Sometimes they billed families for months after their relative was dead.
There is something to learn from how defunding state care for disabled people played an important role in winning doctors and nurses over to the idea that just killing these people would be a good idea.
Funding was cut for state care facilities and they became miserable places. Patients acted out and a gulf grew between those providing care and their patients. Meanwhile propaganda suggested that these people would be better off dead.
How are people turned into problems? Into "burdens on society" into objects of contempt?
I think about how people get annoyed and angry when a sick homeless person is on the subway. Yes it's annoying that this guy is sprawled out over 3 seats, or yelling and making noise, but why has this happened. Did he choose to come and make my commute more difficult? Or is this the only place he can lay down for a bit where it isn't outside and freezing?
I see articles claiming he "apologized" but I don't see how you can apologize for:
“Or involuntary lethal injection… or something. Just kill ‘em.”
We know what you really think, my guy. He should have been fired.
I often think about a curse that would cause everyone in the world to look at Brian Kilmeade the way that people often look at homeless people. As if your whole life means less than my temporary comfort.
@futurebird it's astonishing how much violence one can do by simply changing a budget line item.
In current news, over the years Canada's medical euthanasia program has expanded even while in my province at least, disability supports keep falling below what is even necessary to keep people off the streets, and there are now a lot of stories of that overlap that are, at best, *way* too close to the line.
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