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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCalifornia city official says COVID-19 should be allowed to 'fix' society by culling elderly
If you see the signs at many of these anti-lockdown rallies, this is the type of arguments being pushed. Indeed, the evidence that COVID-19 is hitting many poor and minority communities harder is actually driving many right wingers to protest for the end of the lockdown as they are egged on Trump. Sure, many white people will be killed, but for folks like Ken Turnage, it is worth it.
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-calif-official-who-said-coronavirus-could-fix-society-may-lose-job-20200501-crcpsikwejbnvpahwo5racbdgm-story.html#rt=chartbeat-flt
We would have significant loss of life, we would lose many elderly, that would reduce burdens in our defunct Social Security System, health care cost once the wave subsided make jobs available for others and it would also free up housing in which we are in dire need of, Turnage 47, wrote, according to the East Bay Times.
In another excerpt reported by SFGate.com, Turnage said the natural spread of COVID-19 would also cull the herd of other people he considered undesirable.
Then we have our other sectors such as our homeless and other people who just defile themselves by either choice or mental issues, he wrote. This would run rampant through them and yes I am sorry but this would fix what is a significant burden on our Society and resources that can be used.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)Take another look at their cause of death.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Grokenstein
(5,722 posts)His Facebook pages is down, the business he inherited from Daddy is probably finished, and he's crying that he's the victim.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Mz Pip
(27,442 posts)In his mind a woman cant make a choice where or not to terminate a pregnancy but killing off grandma and grandpa is just fine with him.
Why bother to wait for a virus to take out these undesirables? Just shoot them now and be done with it.
F@#&ing Nazi.
EarlG
(21,947 posts)Once they found out that COVID-19 disproportionately affects the elderly, minorities, homeless people, etc. they all started thinking "hmm, maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all."
Almost like it's some kind of solution to America's problems. Maybe even a final solution, if you will.
If there's one thing Trump's presidency has exposed, it's the fact that a surprising number of Americans are just straight-up Nazis.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)That is one of the most cold-hearted, callous and inhuman things I have heard from the death cults.
Ken should get the 4th Reich Award for that one!
How are the AstroTurfers on this one? Is it acceptable? Let's cull the herd and let Grandpa, Grandma, Aunt's and Uncles go for the sake of reducing their burden.
It is disheartening to hear this at all, but during a national pandemic crisis, it's truly deplorable, despicable and maybe even telling.
procon
(15,805 posts)Seriously, this guy stepped out of history book documenting the atrocious policies of Hitler. The fact that he feels comfortable enough to air his appalling views in public tells me that he finds receptive audiences who share his thinking.
How can anyone just blithely dismiss a very larger chunk of the American people and willingly consign them to die? Sure, he thinks to reap the benefits of getting a better job or moving to a more desirable neighborhood after his list of undesirables are eliminated, but how does a human being become so jaded and selfish?
Has worse than an animal because he would sell out his own family for money and not have a shred if remorse.(
quaint
(2,563 posts)By Bay City News Published May 2, 2020 Updated on May 2, 2020 at 3:41 am
Happy Hoosier
(7,308 posts)This man claims to be a good Christian?
Chainfire
(17,537 posts)to just line us up on the edge of a ditch and machine gun us? No ambulance rides, no hospital bills, no funeral expenses, it would be a win-win.
And some folks seem to think I am over the top suggesting that Fascism is gaining ground in this country.
abakan
(1,819 posts)FUCK YOU
Initech
(100,070 posts)AnotherMother4Peace
(4,243 posts)more panicked, he will be blowing that dog whistle louder, and we'll be seeing his minions (brown shirts) becoming more menacing. Right wing media is calling for the sabotage of any covid-19 interventions.
bubbazero
(296 posts).........Sir, In regards to your recent "culling the herd" comments when commenting about the current COVID-19 pandemic, I refer you to THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Specifically, the infamous paragraph which contains: We hold these Truths to be Self evident.........Sir, as your comments blatantly show, you do not believe in EQUALITY, UNALIENABLE HUMAN RIGHTS, and the specifically noted LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Your lack of belief in these principles is not "un-American"; but rather clearly, ANTIAMERICAN. Therefore you are to be barred from ever holding public office again, PERIOD. WE DO NOT EMPLOY "ENEMIES OF THE STATE" IN OUR GOVERNMENT!...PERIOD!.......................Good bye, sir ...........(don't ya dare stain the door with your sorry ass on the way out)
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)The "lessers" are there to be used, exploited and eliminated.
People are a commodity property. Mr. Turnage is one sick f**k.