This is a disability justice issue. Also this is why I’m irritated that for ten years I spent fending off accusations that Margaret Sanger was a wild racist trying to use birth control to eliminate the Black population when what she was trying to do was eliminate people with disabilities. - ThreadSky

angryblacklady.bsky.social • 77 days ago

This is a disability justice issue.

Also this is why I’m irritated that for ten years I spent fending off accusations that Margaret Sanger was a wild racist trying to use birth control to eliminate the Black population when what she was trying to do was eliminate people with disabilities.

Reposted from Chuck Wendig

This reveals that RFK’s whole “oh you can get a vaccine if you want to, just no mandates” thing is bullshit because he’s going after the vaccines themselves.

Vaccines which, for the record, are one of the keystones to our civilization. Particularly regarding the survival of children.

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james-rice.bsky.social•77 days ago

*Me prepping the needles to create an #AutisticArmy*

hobbitwomanz.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is terrible. Other countries are gonna start demanding our Vax papers if we want to travel there because we are clearly in trouble.

rebeccacokley.bsky.social•77 days ago

I see this clearly as the sequel to the complete destruction of infection control standards in nursing homes from the last go round that directly led to the explosion of Covid cases.

Here we go again people.

chetthejet.bsky.social•77 days ago

Would not be surprised if JFK Jr would petition remove the FDA approval of all vaccines. This is just the beginning.

jp.world•77 days ago

Absolutely infruriating, given a lot of our Senators have direct experience with polio. Chuck Grassley was 22 when the vaccine came out.

angryblacklady.bsky.social•77 days ago

I wrote this piece a few years ago and good lord the antis on twitter creamed their collective Twinkie. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2021/04/22/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-whether-margaret-sanger-was-racist/

mariposa17.bsky.social•77 days ago

Yes she was one of the loudest supporting eugenics…

rosietheblue.bsky.social•77 days ago

Very interesting and well researched article. I'm pro-choice and the mother of an Autistic child. I've been fighting for my son's rights for 22 years and it won't be getting easier under the Trump administration. As a sociologist I can't help but view my personal story from a broader perspective.

angryblacklady.bsky.social•77 days ago

Throwback to the time I did an event with Margaret Sanger’s grandson at the Brooklyn Historical Society and he agreed that granny was ableist.

crowquill.bsky.social•77 days ago

That woman had issues upon issues. I gotta re-read your stuff!

angryblacklady.bsky.social•77 days ago

We don’t need vaccines. You should just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

coffinsneeze.bsky.social•77 days ago

“If you believed in yourself hard enough you wouldn’t be unhealthy”

we are in Trouble

mannahattamamma.bsky.social•77 days ago

Gilded Age 2.0, except with robber barons who refuse to be shamed into doing anything even remotely civic-minded

johno5.bsky.social•77 days ago

This is the perfect phrase. On the surface it sounds positive & helpful, but describes something impossible to do. Totally condescending; privileged, abled people talking down to people, like, “You all can just pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps; wink wink, haha” But knowing it’s impossible

ravincool.bsky.social•77 days ago

That's the trick. If you can't grab your bootstraps (because you are fully paralyzed), you can never pull yourself up.

sramkrishna.bsky.social•77 days ago

Next will be soap, no need to wash your hands. You got natural body elements that will protect you, Dr Oz has all the great recipes that will boost your immune system.

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