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TomCADem

(17,387 posts)
Sat May 2, 2020, 01:55 PM May 2020

California 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

Ken Turnage, a member of the city planning commission in Antioch, said in a now-deleted April 23 Facebook post that coronavirus lockdowns should be lifted to “let nature take its course.”

“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.”
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California city official says COVID-19 should be allowed to 'fix' society by culling elderly (Original Post) TomCADem May 2020 OP
Is Turnage volunteering his mother to go first? Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #1
If his parents are dead law enforcement should leftyladyfrommo May 2020 #19
mr. turnage should be removed from office immediately if not sooner. spanone May 2020 #2
Done and done. Grokenstein May 2020 #9
Thanks for posting!!!! 👍🏼 spanone May 2020 #10
I'll just bet he's a pro lifer. Mz Pip May 2020 #3
He said out loud what all those "re-open" protesters are thinking EarlG May 2020 #4
Wow! Newest Reality May 2020 #5
Wonder where he displays his Nazi flag. procon May 2020 #6
Antioch City Council Removes Planning Commissioner After Viral Uproar Over Remarks quaint May 2020 #7
How much you wanna bet.... Happy Hoosier May 2020 #8
Wouldn't it be far more efficient Chainfire May 2020 #11
As one of the elderly I have only one thing to say to Ken Turnage abakan May 2020 #12
So much for the "Obamacare is going to kill your grandma" crowd. Initech May 2020 #13
trump is currently giving marching orders to the "ken turnage" brown shirts. As trump becomes AnotherMother4Peace May 2020 #14
Mr. Ken Turnage,...........re: Your recent "culling the herd comments" bubbazero May 2020 #15
christofascist ideology right down the line. Thomas Hurt May 2020 #16
Necropolitics. Elderly, blacks, browns, undocumented. Those it's okay to lose. Karadeniz May 2020 #17
Happy Mother's Day lame54 May 2020 #18

Mz Pip

(27,442 posts)
3. I'll just bet he's a pro lifer.
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:05 PM
May 2020

In his mind a woman can’t 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)
4. He said out loud what all those "re-open" protesters are thinking
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:06 PM
May 2020

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)
5. Wow!
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:11 PM
May 2020

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)
6. Wonder where he displays his Nazi flag.
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:20 PM
May 2020

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)
7. Antioch City Council Removes Planning Commissioner After Viral Uproar Over Remarks
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:25 PM
May 2020

By Bay City News • Published May 2, 2020 • Updated on May 2, 2020 at 3:41 am

In a special two-hour remote meeting Friday night, the Antioch City Council voted unanimously to remove Ken Turnage II from his seat on the city planning commission following his social media posting about "culling the herd" during the COVID-19 crisis.

Chainfire

(17,537 posts)
11. Wouldn't it be far more efficient
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:30 PM
May 2020

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.

AnotherMother4Peace

(4,243 posts)
14. trump is currently giving marching orders to the "ken turnage" brown shirts. As trump becomes
Sat May 2, 2020, 02:34 PM
May 2020

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)
15. Mr. Ken Turnage,...........re: Your recent "culling the herd comments"
Sat May 2, 2020, 03:28 PM
May 2020

.........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)
16. christofascist ideology right down the line.
Sat May 2, 2020, 04:42 PM
May 2020

The "lessers" are there to be used, exploited and eliminated.

People are a commodity property. Mr. Turnage is one sick f**k.

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