This is actually a great time to talk about the fact that it is psychologists/psychiatrists-not ableist medical doctors like one would expect—that have been at the forefront of COVID (re: genocide) denial.
Every so often, somebody posts something from Reddit and it’s always somebody talking how their psychiatrist/psychologist was trying to “therapize” them out of wearing their masks. That they’re anxious. Obsessive. Compulsive. Holding themselves back from living their lives.
I’ve benefited therapy and etc in the past but I’d be an ass if I didn’t remind of how carceral/evil (tbh) industry can be.
You can point to Christianity’s role in the original sins of the US (nearly wiping out indigenous peoples with “Manifest Destiny” & assimilation through residential “schools” & of course chattel slavery). Yet! You people will lie about what you’ve chosen to align yourselves with.
Notice the line about Christianity “breaking down tribal ties”:
Here, Wills ties together the connection between the Christian tradition of “the father” being “master” over the home, the family, “the female sex” & “the slave” as a justification for slavery.
But y’all still wanna deny its relationship with/to fascism.
Indeed. I think more of y’all should be honest about the fact that willingly identifying with Christianity/as a Christian
*in this country* makes you part of an oppressor class. And that, yes, being marginalized in other ways does not automatically cancel that out 🤷🏾♀️
If you can see that things like being cis, rich/a wealth hoarder, able-bodied, YT/non-Black, straight/heterosexual, a m*n, and etc make you part of the oppressor class, why drag your feet on this particular distinction?
Particularly since we live under a Christofascist state?
Part of the reason Christofacism is able to thrive is because people take the same limp noodle approach to it that they do to, say, wh*teness. Just like wh*teness doesn’t like to be readily identified and called out, the “Christ” in Christofacism functions the same way.
AKA the end result of people focusing on their “feelings” about their bodies (the hijacking of the body positivity movement) rather than the oppressive systems that seek to crush them and anyone else whose body deviates from the YT supremacist ideal that is thinness 😃
A couple of things. There are distinctions between creating propaganda, funding propaganda, platforming propaganda, and popularizing propaganda. Autism Speaks covers the last THREE categories and they will CONTINUE to be whacked by ME for the following reasons:
Disgraced UK “academic”and former physician Andrew Wakefield was at the *forefront* of The Lancet MMR autism fraud. This was a 1998 study “that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism.” This study also listed TWELVE co-authors.
UK journalist Brian Deer started investigating this so-called study in 2003 and by February of 2009, full exposed Wakefield and the study as fraudulent. In March 2004, folks caught wind of the investigation and 10 of the 12 co-authors retracted their contributions.