Thread by @AlexandraErin

Note: Mass surgical sterilizations in the US are only "like Nazi Germany" in the sense that Nazi Germany was like the US. The Nazis studied our eugenics movement, which was government-backed and viewed as compassionate, scientifically-minded, and progressive by those who did it.

Science denial is dangerous and sucks but it's important to realize that "science" isn't objective because it's done by humans and humans aren't objective. People who have dared to oppose some awful, awful things have been accused of ignoring science and setting back progress.

Sometimes it's not chickens coming home to roost. Sometimes they're just already roosting, because they live there. This is the chickens' home, but some of us have got used to ignoring the smell.

.....from the QTs and comments, seems like a lot of people can't read "The United States did this horrible thing." without seeing it as a defense and an argument that therefore it couldn't be horrible.

I'm glad you see it's awful. But why is that your reflex?

The point is not "We did it, therefore it's fine." Was the chicken coop metaphor too obscure? I just said our country stinks to high heaven with the stench of what we've learned to live with. I guess that's too subtle?

The point isn't "We did it, therefore it's fine." The point is that looking to a time and place that feels far away removed from our present life for comparison is externalizing, minimizing, what has happened and still is happening here.

Forced sterilization never ended.