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CW ableism
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Today on reddit someone said “After a nuclear war you and the rest of the survivors are running out of food due to a low yield harvest. One person suggests exile all disabled people to the cold wastes to die, another suggests abortion of current pregnant mothers. Other choices are a lottery to decide who dies, or do nothing. What would you rather do?”
They overwhelmingly voted to exile all the disabled people to die.
While I absolutely share your frustration and am glad you shared this post, I wanted to ask you to put a CW for ableism in your post as this is some very dark stuff and it should be marked accordingly.
Edit: Thank you!
Some of the replies are saying this is a reddit thing but I’m pretty sure most people would do the same. This is the dominant view in our society.
CW: discussion of ableist beliefs
Also bc of some very old belief that only “able-bodied” people can survive in harsh conditions. Like, that during an apocalyptic scenario straight out of Hollywood, people who are disabled would just die first, because they’re sick. It’s a very pervasive belief and it makes it sound like each disability is the same.
I mean obviously. It is a hypothetical set up explicitly to show an assumed relative worthlessness of the disabled and makes the assumption that we do not contribute.
Name a more iconic duo than reddit and bringing back 19th and 20th century views on the marginalised. The hypothetical is literally framed around useless eaters.
Reddit is fuckin trash-style garbage. additionally if you believed what they say about reality then ron paul would have been the president. Its also just riddled with bots these days, i’ll read through comments and be upset by the comprehension on display until i realize there is no comprehension at all, just bots speaking past each other. Long story short reddit is full of dorks, robo-dweebs, and fascists.
They always do. Disabled are always the first to go. It happened under the nazis. Its happening in kanada with MAID.
Exile all the Redditors