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By moving "special" education to the Department of Health & Human Services and once again medicalizing disability (disability is a big tent - not everyone has a chronic disease to be cured...some people are born disabled and it's eugenicist society that is disabling them, for example), they've set disabled people up as something to be "cured", not USians entitled to an equitable accessible education.
Even under Dem admins this view was common - note the popularity of research funding for "curing" autism - but now it's official and built into the bureaucratic structure of what's left of the our democratic republic.
Ppl should raise hell now, of course, but I want to point out that folks should have been raising hell all along. And excising propaganda phrases like "special education" from their own vocabulary. When you grant eugenicist fascist premises, you are advancing eugenicist fascist causes. You are letting them set the debate & reacting instead of staking out an equitable just democratic vision. #USpol
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"Aw, it's just the 'short bus'. I mean, they're not 'normal', like me"
As you might have noticed, it's not enough to them to be abled. It's not enough to be a man. It's not enough to be white (although they're ableist misogynist white supremacists)...
You may *think* you don't need to get active because it's not hurting you (and you're too comfortable or uncaring to go to bat for others).
It doesn't stop there. They keep paring away at the definition of who is human and will keep making that circle smaller & smaller until it's billionaires in their bunkers on the smoking cinder they'll make of this planet, lobbing bombs from bunker to bunker.
The time to become anti-ableist was aeons ago, but the next best time is NOW.
#Eugenics #Fascism #Ableism #Education
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