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11 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I wrote about the abject failure of federal Covid policy, about the passive eugenics of the Biden administration, and how fiercely worthwhile disabled lives are: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/eugenics-wit…
"It is a central axiom in the American mindset that one’s health is a matter of personal responsibility; ailing is a moral failure, a sign of deficient character; health is a primary arbiter of worth." theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/eugenics-wit…
🗣The federal government's refusal to provide fiscal aid in mitigation measures is a form of passive eugenics
theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/eugenics-wit…
not gonna say "the comments are proving my point so im not mad" bc ... this does make me mad

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8 Nov 21
It's here: the final installment of my series on evangelical Christian corporal punishment. This last section concerns the process of deconstruction (breaking away from faith); how people heal; and how they choose to parent, their children and themselves. theswordandthesandwich.substack.com/p/ministry-of-…
This has been a massive amount of work -- intellectual and emotional. I have read all or parts of 21 books, talked to over a hundred people. Taken as a whole, the series traces the political evolution of evangelical child punishment in the 20th century and its effects.
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8 Nov 21
finishing up the series on evangelical child abuse tonight for publication tomorrow. this has been a real weight on me-- one that feels important. it is a topic i will expand on in my book. but it has been challenging to write gracefully & factually about so much pain.
every time i dive into the evangelical world i find something new and staggeringly bizarre (or see something I knew about in a new context). Answers in Genesis is something else (as are the Hams' books on childrearing). Also I got the Keepers At Home handbook! It's so... pink.
This piece is a bit shorter. The draft is only 3,000 words. I feel so... much... right now.
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