Thread by @JohnFPfaff

This story is horrific, even by the horrific standards we labor under these days.

And if this seems shocking and incomprehensible to you, it sadly shouldn't.

The US has a long history of this. And not an ancient history. It runs right to the present.

thedailybeast.com/ice-whistleblo…

Here's a piece by @cjciaramella, with @ProperlyZuri, on a woman in federal prison threatened, repeatedly, to get a hysterectomy in... 2018: reason.com/2020/06/30/the…

Here's a story from California, that sterilized over a hundred women, just in the early 2000s. Over a hundred more in the years before that: npr.org/sections/thetw…

The dehumanizing language of the doctor who did this is... jaw-dropping. Not unusual,. Still jaw-dropping.

Here's one of a woman who had forced tubal ligation in for a MARIJUANA conviction. In 2009.

talkpoverty.org/2017/08/23/u-s…

Here's a history of forced sterilization in prisons, from 1907 onward, by @Lollardfish: themarshallproject.org/2017/07/26/our…

If what is alleged to have happened at that ICE facility is true--and our history sure says we should expect it to be so--this is not something that can be washed away with just an election.

This is a dark path that requires a bigger reckoning.

But it's not unexpected, either.