@SarahV2K Mostly this bit. All eugenics is tied up in a misunderstanding of the idea of evolutionary "fitness," which was then bound to notions of cleanliness and health which invariably saw minorities, immigrants, the poor, &, of course, the disabled, as "dirty"…
In the early 20th century, this began to be tied to notions of the Pure Land, or "unspoiled nature," and philosophers like Heidegger began to form the basis for how the Nazi ideologies would incorporate the American & British eugenics programs
@SarahV2K …And so this notion of "naturalness" & "purity" being tied to "health" & "fitness" & "rightness" became both a moral & an ecological stance as to how people "ought to" live their lives.
A sense of "Nature is to be tended & revered because it is the birthright of the pure & fit"
@SarahV2K And so: "Clean eating" as opposed to "dirty" eating, "wrong" eating, "impure" eating is an outgrowth of the eugenicist project, honestly tracing back to Kellogg. If you "eat clean" then you'll "stay fit" and you'll thus be "worthy" of inheriting the "pure land."
Et cetera.
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There needs to be soul-deep, daily, uncovered Revelational Reckoning with who we are and how we live. What our values are and what it is we want in this world.
You expect us to teach in this? You expect us to learn, institutionally, in this? You expect us to work in ALL OF THIS?
We need a reckoning. We need space to grieve. And we need time to process this.
In the US, certainly, but I mean globally, right now.
Grief and a reckoning are not incommensurable things.
Jim jordan opening sentence proves that he will say nothing substantial on these articles of impeachment. He will, instead, be a bloviating blowhard, repeating over and over again the same obfuscatory talking points from December 2019.
Which is exactly why republicans chose him.
Republicans seem not to understand that Lincoln's failure to convict every single general and officer of the confederacy is part of why we're where we are, today.
What are Republicans playing at, reserving all their time? Gonna go all at once, after the Democrats speak, trying to get the last word?
Okay, maybe some of y'all are ready. Start w/ a personal example:
There are some things i literally cannot eat or I'll have a bad time, to put it mildly. If I'm jailed for a crime I didn't commit, or held political prisoner, I'm not likely to get other options. So I'll get sick.
These things aren't necessarily "dirty" or processed foods. In fact, many processed foods make certain i get enough nutrients in my system without hassle so that i can, y'know, LIVE.
BUT.
The food that they serve in prison is meant, in its form, to be a part of the punishment.
The part that fucks me up— the part that too many of you still aren't really coming to grips with— is that Donald John Trump told us that this is who he was, every day, for 35 years, and then tens of millions of people voted for him anyway.
TWICE.
And the questions you need to be asking yourself, right now, are
1) How many people would STILL vote for him AGAIN?
These republicans & @FoxNews pundits are actively trying to rewrite history, & even @npr@NBCNews@ABC@CBSNews@cnn & @MSNBC reporters & various tv personalities are trying to act like they didn't have a hand in normalizing this fascistic violence as it rose.
"I didn't even feel safe going to that extraction point because there were QAnon and white supremacist members of Congress who I felt would disclose my location and create opportunities to allow me to be hurt." cnet.com/news/aoc-on-ca…