This is what the United States has done to refugees and asylum seekers. This was done in your name, in my name, in the name of all Americans.
So. Do you see what the fuck I meant by "passive eugenics" now!!
Holy wow, this thread viral when I wasn't looking, so I want to say that I deserve no credit for this. I didn't break the story, just tweeted it. It was written by @LambeJerry and the report came from @ProjectSouth. Also @GovAcctProj has taken on the whistleblower's case.
Although the whistleblower has been identified, I will not identify her any more than I already have for probably obvious reasons.
Also, @theintercept did an in-depth story on the same issue, leading with a different angle and painting an awful picture:
That excellent and deeply upsetting article was reported and written by @jlosc9 and @jbwashing.
Seeing a lot of aspersions and doubts cast on every aspect of this story, so I highly recommend learning about the history of Irwin County Detention Center and LaSalle. This facility is well known.
If all of this is new to you and seems too shocking to be real, then perhaps you just weren't paying attention. Actually, I know no one was. I was covering it and trying to get people to pay attention.
As far as the sterilizations go, all I can say is that I've heard stories like this for a long time -- but no one would talk on the record.
Oh and by the way, they are penning people up in there to die of COVID!! People who have to make a mighty effort to even exist in the eyes of the USA, simply for seeking a better life. It is all monstrous.
Oh, one last observation to add to this thread.
These are refugees and asylum-seekers who have committed, at most, a civil offense. Not a criminal one.
I've been thinking about doing this thread for a couple of days. This is mostly for myself so I can go back to it, I don't really expect anybody in this dying hellscape to see it, but I wanted to lay it out here for my own sake. Here's my last few years in news stories:
Here's me, just so incredibly naive in late 2016, saying that "fake news" wasn't the problem so much as lack of journalism. For the record, I still stand by this, but at the time I had no idea how much social media was in on the disinfo attacks:
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Alternately, please consider joining a #WritersGuildofAmerica picket line and support the absolute shit out of this strike
I haven't really articulated this much but: Disinformation depends on altering our stories, true ones and fictional ones, to affect how we see ourselves and each other and make the world seem much more negative. There is a lot of power in culture, so of course jackholes want it
"The majority of the 1,000-plus book challenges analyzed by The Post were filed by just 11 people.
Each of these people brought 10 or more challenges against books in their school district; one man filed 92 challenges."
"As the planet warms, more calamities will strike the U.S. and, if the recent past is any indication, create new opportunities for militias and other extremist groups to mobilize and recruit...."
That's why all the insane border hardening and eugenics shit is happening now too. Borders are there to consolidate resources. Well, we're the resources they're trying to consolidate.