It's called eugenics': GOP congressman blasted for 'obscene' minimizing of COVID deaths of children

[babylonsister]

It's called eugenics': GOP congressman blasted for 'obscene' minimizing of COVID deaths of children
David Badash
and The New Civil Rights Movement
February 08, 2022


A Republican U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania with ties to a racist former Trump official came under fire Tuesday for minimizing the more than 1000 deaths of children who died from COVID-19.

“Many of these children had pre-existing – I’m sorry, had underlying medical conditions,” said Rep. Guy Reschenthaler on the House floor, “making them more vulnerable to COVID-19 than the average child, meaning that many of these children died with COVID, not of COVID.”

“But again,” Reschenthaler wrongly snarked, “that’s real science, not political science.”

Rep. Reschenthaler tries to downplay the deaths of children from COVID saying many of them died with COVID not from COVIDpic.twitter.com/wSyyzqmv2v
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Congressman Reschenthaler for several years was the co-host of a radio program with Carl Higbie, a Trump administration appointee who was forced to resign over “anti-gay, anti-Muslim, racist and sexist remarks he had made on his radio program,” CNN reported in 2018.

On Tuesday his remarks about children who died from COVID-19 angered and upset many.

“Rep. Reschenthaler, the phrase you’re casting about for here, as you try to minimize the deaths of children with preexisting conditions from #COVID19, is not ‘real science,’ but ‘Nazi science.’ It’s called eugenics. You’re a eugenicist,” charged New York Times best-selling author Steve Silberman.

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/children/

[blm]

1. Oh lort. These people are depraved.

[LakeArenal]

2. GOP is the worst with semantics. Of/with???

Such word salad.

[viva la]

3. Why is it they minimize the deaths?

We're coming up to a million now, and most dying now are unvaccinated.
Surely even a heartless ahole like him realizes that every child's death is a tragedy. Every one.


Maybe he should say, "Well, you know, most of the dying adults are unvaccinated, with means they have the comorbidity of stubborn stupidity. So this is nature's way of culling the tribe-- and diminishing the votes for my tribe."

[Irish_Dem]

4. Nazi Science. When Nazis took over a town, they would kill all the

weak, sick, disabled right off the bat. Along with the Jews.

In Poland they also killed off the upper and middle classes.
Kept the lower class poor to be used as slaves.

[multigraincracker]

5. They should be wearing brown shirts,

just to ID them.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Right. They have the flags already and are learning the salute.

[atreides1]

6. Actually

The Germans did, in fact, borrow much of their 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Defective Offspring (the so-called 'sterilization law') from the model sterilization law drawn up for the various states by Harry H. Laughlin, Superintendent of the ERO(Eugenics Record Office), and a number of American eugenicists were impressed with the Nazi eugenical laws after 1933.


In a 1976 investigation, the Government Accountability Office found that over 25 percent of Native Americans were forcibly sterilized in the early 1970s.

It was an American Science before the Nazis used it!!!

[Irish_Dem]

8. I am sure it was done throughout history.

[multigraincracker]

9. Survival of a species depends

on diverse genes. The one you want gone, may be the one needed to survive a change in the environment down the road.

[Hortensis]

10. He's also slipping in referring to "excess mortality" deaths from

other causes with Covid, which Republicans avoid because the real death toll from their holocaust passed 1 million souls some time ago.

Just realized the old saying "avoid like the plague" can't be applied to them any more. But "depraved indifference to life" has become a defining characteristic.