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[sunflowers-and-scarce-spoons]

abled ppl who insist they aren't ableist are actually so chill with eugenics until you call it eugenics

"well offering euthanasia to people with disabilities who can't afford to live is–" eugenics. it's eugenics.

"why do disabled people have children? I mean they're just consigning them to this painful life–" eugenics <3

"but their quality of life is so reduced how can they justify bringing kids into–" ✨eugenics✨

"maybe medicine has advanced too far. I mean why are we keeping people with [insert condition here] alive when their quality of life–" EUGENICS

idc if you're ✨concerned✨ for my ✨quality of life✨ that's a) not your problem and b) something which could be improved by providing better accommodations for disabled ppl and making sure we have to deal with less ableist bullshit and ableist assholes like yourself.

[closet-keys]

I think in general people are unaware of just how much Western culture (esp US culture) is founded in the ideology of eugenics. It’s there at the roots of so many institutions.

Like for example, universities in US were built near “insane” asylums so that populations could be sorted between desirable characteristics (universities) and undesirable characteristics (asylums) in order to encourage reproduction between white upper class people and discourage reproduction between those deemed ‘unfit’ & also so the unfit could be experimented on and studied. (Folks who wanna read more on the eugenicist origins of universities should read the book Academic Ableism)

Eugenics underpins the entire pro-life/pro-choice debate in America where white women are encouraged to reproduce and people of color are discouraged (or literally sterilized, or have their children routinely killed by police)

It’s in IQ tests and other forms of testing to sort people into groups where certain scores are implicitly “better” than others. It’s in how those tests will be used to talk about how different ‘races’ perform.

It’s in the anti-vaccine movement where people believe that it is better for a child to die than to be autistic.

It’s in our language evolving so that the default negative things we can call someone are idiot, stupid, crazy, lunatic. It’s in every joke about how “humans need a new plague” “there’s too many people”

It’s everywhere. It’s the air we breathe. You have to constantly work against eugenics ideology to have a chance of unrooting it from yourself.

[inthesensethat]

[hexthelex-deactivated20250420]

This is true btw

[letmeliedown]

the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really

[thehmn]

Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

It was a global problem

[bgm05]

ideas for discourse i came up with

having OCs is bourgeois

people who write erotica should be considered sex workers

only americans believe in aliens

it's misogynist to draw touhou characters with big boobs

the "godzilla" franchise is harmful because it teaches children that they should be afraid of lizards and other animals

feel free to argue about any of these, credit not needed but appreciated

[innerchildabortionclinic]

the amount of people saying they feel bad for clavicular...mind you he CHOSE the career path of telling kids to microdose meth so your skull shape improves. even if I only knew him from his recent interviews in which he waters down his ideology I wouldn't sympathize so idk where people are getting this sympathy from but let's put it towards more important things

[innerchildabortionclinic]

that's crazy it really sucks dysmorphia about your appearance just forces you to be racist on the internet. there was simply no other option

[optimisticbananaturtle]

I think it's crazy that hating this racist is a sign of evil but we must all salivate at mentally ill people dying at age 27

[incomingalbatross]

But Tumblr says this will build engagement; and Tumblr is an honorable site.

(feel free to reblog this any way you want, if you want.)

[david-goldrock]

Friends, tumblerinas, feigalach of all kinds, lend me your ear. I come to mourn the reblog chain, not to praise her

The good that features do, is mentioned after them. Their frustrating parts are oft intered with their bones, so let it be, with the reblog chain

The noble tumblr had told you the reblog chain denied engagement. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, and grievously the reblog chain paid for it

Here, under leave of tumblr and its @staff, for tumblr is an honorable site, so are its staff, honorable in their help, come I to speak, at the reblog chain's final moments

She was a good feature. Simple, and engaging to me, but tumblr says it denied engagement and tumblr is an honorable site

It had brought many memes to the world, who's sharing did the userbase grow, did this, in the reblog chain, deny engagement?

When that the meme did flop, the reblog chain had not notes! Engagement denial should be made of lesser stuff, yet tumblr says it denied engagement and tumblr is an honorable site

You all did see that in the last 3 years thrice users of other sites flocked to it, and thrice they had not stayed because opening Tumblr for the first time sucks, and absolutely never for the reblog chain, but tumblr says it did deny engagement, and Tumblr, is an honorable site

I speak not to disprove what tumblr spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love her once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for her? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And @changes have lost their reason. Bear with me; my heart is in the coffin there with the reblog chain, and I must pause till it come back to me.

[optimisticbananaturtle]

What happened?

[skotoseme]

untitled part 1: everything and nothing (1999) souha bechara after her release from captivity in israeli prison el-khiam in south lebanon.

An intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject with, Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room taped (during the last year of the Israeli occupation) one year after her release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S. Lebanon) where she had been detained for 10 years, 6 years in isolation. Revising notions of resistance, survival and will, recounting to death, separation and closeness; the overexposed image and body of a surviving martyr speaking quietly and directly into the camera juxtaposed against her self and image, not speaking of the torture but of the distance between the subject and loss, of what is left behind and what remains.

[akaratna]

On Vimeo (40:46) https://vimeo.com/71401594

[luvmesumus]

[guelwaar]

ai should replace doctors is such a funny ass take it's like which do you prefer: the racist who condescends to you and hates you and hasn't read a paper since 1982, or the machine that generates the linguistic average of 1 million of him,

[optimisticbananaturtle]

I can't imagine a more impactful time to speak on prison abolishing than the release of the Epstein files.

For years they told us we need the prisons to stop CSA. Well, now what???

People need to stop believing in the Carcerial system that protects the most vulnerable but instead creates them.

Abolish prisons.

[mens-rights-activia]

Based on the funniest fucking anon ask I’ve ever seen on this site

[optimisticbananaturtle]

Rip Little timmy. I know you would have loved saying the N word before the cancer got you. ❤️.

Unfortunately they said no, you can't. (they?) yes they! You know.... The blacks.

[gothhabiba]

a lot of people seem to really earnestly believe that women have thicker lips than men on average and despite my best efforts I have been unable to find any evidence that this is the case.

also a lot of people believe that human height is bimodal by "sex" which is not the case. if you plotted human heights by prevalence you would get one peak, not two. height is not sexually dimorphic enough to be statistically bimodal, and that is even though we live in a world where infants who were assigned female receive poorer nutrition from birth. I daresay if that were not the case, there would be even less of a difference

[theomenroom]

I struggled with finding height charts that don't break it out by gender (which goes to show how strong the ideology is that men and women are incomparable), but I did find this page, which has this graph that shows that the crossover of their "male" and "female" curves (no words on how they defined those, or if their samples knowingly included any trans people at all), that +1SD for women was taller than -1SD for men, and while I haven't added the two curves together, I can tell by inspection that at the point where they cross, the sum would be higher than either sub-peak.

[gothhabiba]

A mixture of two normal densities will not be bimodal unless there is a very large difference between their means, typically larger than the sum of their standard deviations. If male and female heights are even approximately normally distributed with means and standard deviations close to those reported by the NHANES survey, the difference between the means of male and female heights is not enough to produce bimodality. Yet photographs of living histograms do show bimodality. We have discussed several reasons why a histogram of male and female heights may have a bimodal appearance even though, using reasonable estimates of the parameters, theory says the underlying distribution is mound-shaped. For example, the tendency of students to favor certain values when self-reporting their height may contribute to the phenomenon. And when taking small random samples from a mound-shaped distribution, it is common to get a histogram that looks bimodal.

— Mark F Schilling, Ann E Watkins & William Watkins, "Is Human Height Bimodal?"

[marxistlesbianist]

The littlest bit frustrated to see leftist spaces remember October 7th primarily as a day of mourning, and not as the anniversary of the most successful military action launched by the Palestinian resistance, and the beginning of a united military front through which Palestinian resistant groups have come together to free their homeland. Let us mourn the victims of Israeli violence, but let us also celebrate the militants who, on this day two years ago, broke down the Walls of their prison!

[transmutationisms]

something i think is deceptively easy to overlook in theorising biopolitics is that the state has interests both in maintaining a fit and healthy population (simply put, it needs workers, a military force, and so on) and in designating certain populations as threats to be eliminated (eg, through processes of racialisation used to justify war, slavery, and colonialism, or through eugenic policy that seeks to eliminate the ‘unfit’). these two goals—enforcing life, and creating death—are thus not at odds with one another, but occur in tandem and both play critical roles in the state’s overarching endeavour to harness biology and population management in order to ensure political dominance and profit. an explanation of state policy that exclusively invokes one or the other will never be able to capture the full dynamics of imperialism or even internal policy; always there are efforts to produce and reproduce certain bodies alongside the embrace, and subsequent political use of, the deaths of others. the state cannot be said to have interests solely in mass death or solely in health and life. it needs and uses both; the effort to biologically create and strengthen its population is a matter of managing both death and life. this is why it is possible to identify examples of coercive healthist measures (eg, anti-‘obesity’ policy and rhetoric) and examples of exterminatory and eugenic measures (eg, denial of the ongoing nature of the covid pandemic) coming from the same states at the same time. they do not contradict; they are both useful for the state, are both aimed at the same biological end, and both rely on the same set of bio-medico-political discourses determining which bodies and lives are useful and valuable. 

[optimisticbananaturtle]

Tiktok is such an evil place when it comes to interacting with trauma. There is a good natured lady doing a dramatic recitation of one of his Victims journal.

So many of the accounts doing Epstein content end their videos by saying "follow for part two", start by saying "this is a lot to get through so we are gonna divide it into several parts"

I don't mind that as much as I mind the dramatic readings.

[optimisticbananaturtle]

Rest in piss Michael Foucault. You would have loved convincing Jeffrey Epstein to buy a castle in Algeria.

You would have loved being instrumental to the African Chapter of Epstein's Island.