Thread by @GlumBird

Novara platforming literal eugenicists.

We never defeated the eugenicists, not on the right nor the left. They're being platformed ever more frequently and the line needs to be drawn now.

This is utterly disgusting.

Source of screenshot: social-ecology.org/wp/2005/01/pet…

https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1369241559166824452

I don't look at Novara enough to know if they've *never* mentioned the eugenicist slaughter in care homes, but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case at all.

To get across how bad this actually is, Peter Singer also defended raping disabled adults. currentaffairs.org/2017/04/now-pe….

CW: sexual assault, disableism - this is beyond the pale trust me

Quote from Singer, just so everyone knows we're being fair to his "argument", which amounts to "he might have enjoyed it".

Bastani "challenges" him by saying he might devalue human life and particularly disabled people but not that he literally advocates eugenics toward the end of the interview (47:30). Bastani then allows him to pretty much monologue.

The video has over 12k views and only 53 down votes atm on YT. These people are promoting this shit.

@AaronBastani: why did you choose to platform Peter "murdering disabled children and raping disabled adults is a-ok" Singer then completely fail to challenge him? I can only assume you agree with him

@AaronBastani: Silence speaks volumes

I notice that it is primarily disabled activists angry about this or bothering to comment on it and that itself is also stunning

I think what really needs to be grasped here is that @novaramedia platformed a eugenicist advocate for disabled murder and rape *in context* of a eugenics campaign run by the British government.

This stuff is back as a real force. Silence is complicity.

https://twitter.com/ProlekultFilms/status/1313549139741995008

Still not even one (1) comment in explanation.

There are people actually defending this holy shit

Still no word from Novara or Aaron

Look, we're past the point of plausible deniability. Aaron platformed a eugenicist, clearly knew about this and downplayed Singer's politics, and then Novara blocked the words "disabled" and "Singer" in stream chat.

Novara, or at least Bastani, are clearly pro-eugenics.

In that, they're following a long line of eugenics on both ythe right and left. This has always been a political stance that has found an audience among even communists (although I must stress, the social democrats are more consistently awful about it).

https://twitter.com/GlumBird/status/847901602686140416?s=19

Today, it is clearly gathering steam again - the right putting it into practice (care) and the social democrats bringing into acceptable public discussion (Novara) again.

If we are going to fight this, then we cannot retreat, we cannot accept anything so simple as an apology.

What we must insist upon is a position of advance. We must demand disabled liberation, beginning with a socialist care service - that is, disabled people's ownership of the care and medical services they require, and the abolition of the care home, the founding of community care.

If a eugenicist is in your organisation, make sure they are expelled.

If a eugenicist is given a platform for propaganda, then unmask them and set out clearly our demands.

Do not bow to this tendency. Do not tolerate it at all. There can be no inch given.