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Thread: Right-wing pundits’ smearing of proudly autistic @GretaThunberg’s clear and rational message to unite behind climate science by calling her “mentally ill” must be recognized for what it is: the weaponization of fear of disabled people for political purposes. [1/3]
The suggestion that @GretaThunberg is “disturbed” comes from the same sewer as Nazi claims that Jewish artists were “degenerate” and that disabled people were a “burden on the state,” which were used to justify the Holocaust. [2/3]
In the Soviet Union, dissidents were routinely committed to insane asylums. When smiling @FoxNews pundits and GOPers condemn @GretaThunberg as “robotic,” they’re echoing Nazi and Soviet officials’ efforts to gaslight dissidents, which led directly to the ovens and gulags. [3/3]
