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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama's Emergency Operations Plan for mechanical ventilator triage be very very Nazi...
'Alabama is poised to make life-and-death decisions that will deny needed medical treatment to countless individuals based entirely on their underlying disabilities
'The mere fact that a person has an intellectual or cognitive disability cannot be a basis for denying care or making that person a lower priority to receive treatment.
'In this time of crisis, we cannot devalue the lives of others in our community based on their disabilities. It's morally wrong, and it violates the law' James Tucker, Director of the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program
This is as unsurprising as it is disgusting. But in line with killing of granny and grandpa and denying female agency this makes a far right kind of sense for a patriarchal theocratic cult that they own all bodies, and they can dispose of them as they will.
How did the Nazis see disabled people?
The Nazis took Darwin's ideas of natural selection, in particular the idea of survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, and applied them to the human world and society (Darwin's Origin of the Species had been published in 1859). It was argued that allowing disabled people to live and have children, led to the "unfit" reproducing more quickly than "the fit". It was said that this weakened society's ability to function efficiently, placing an unnecessary toll on non-disabled people.
The Nazis took Darwin's ideas of natural selection, in particular the idea of survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, and applied them to the human world and society (Darwin's Origin of the Species had been published in 1859). It was argued that allowing disabled people to live and have children, led to the "unfit" reproducing more quickly than "the fit". It was said that this weakened society's ability to function efficiently, placing an unnecessary toll on non-disabled people.
[link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/fact/the_holocaust_and_disabled_people_faq_frequently_asked_questions.shtml|]
Very very nazi
Just sayin'
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Alabama's Emergency Operations Plan for mechanical ventilator triage be very very Nazi... (Original Post)
Soph0571
Mar 2020
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Best_man23
(4,897 posts)1. They're just channeling that Republicant Kissinger
To quote Kissinger: "The elderly are useless eaters."
Frances
(8,544 posts)2. But... Alabama protects the "unborn"
No matter if the fetus will probably die in the uterus of natural causes
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)3. Read "Hitler's American Model"
The old South was the inspiration for Nazism.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)4. "Rather than by diagnosis"
Yeah, thats pretty clearly some Nazi shit.
bdamomma
(63,812 posts)5. killing the most vulnerable
sounds very Stephen Miller the Nazi, bastard.
spinbaby
(15,088 posts)6. Too many categories going on there
Mental disability is a broad brush that includes categories such as Down syndrome, which should never be a reason to deny treatment, and also glioblastoma, which is its own death sentence and probably good reason to withhold Covid treatment.
Submariner
(12,502 posts)7. Where is Sarah Palin to fight the right wing Death Panels?
keithbvadu2
(36,724 posts)8. She's being uncharacteristically quiet?
She's being uncharacteristically quiet?
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)9. Maybe she has covid-19? n/t