My introduction to
the following: What is negative eugenics? Negative eugenics aimed to eliminate, through sterilization or segregation,
those deemed physically, mentally, or morally undesirable. This includes
abortions, sterilization, and other methods of family planning.
Think about that in today’s conservative-driven political climate: What about a child born with gay tendencies only revealed in their pre-teens years. Did their parent genes fail – what caused that and how can or will harsh education policy like in FL and other hardcore conservative states control that imply by saying: “Don’t say gay.”
Or, worse by implementing
laws banning certain sex education classes and books in schools and now even stopping
teachers from discussing the topic about race, religion, and especially American slavery. When a student on class
asks a question about those topics and w/o parental permission in advance, FL, TX
and now in MO we see this policy kick in:
MO has a new law that aims
to outdo Florida's “Don't Say Gay” by banning school staff from even discussing
sexual orientation or LGBTQ issues with students who ask and w/o their parent’s
consent.
I believe that no one likes to use or compare anything to Hitler and or Nazi
examples. However, Nazi history and their acts from the 1930’s to their defeat
in WWII that ended in 1945 cannot be excused or dismissed, either.
For Example: The
Nazis used terms such as: “Asocial and Workshy” to categorize groups of people
who did not conform to their social norms. People in those groups included
beggars, homeless people, alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes, and even pacifists
(e.g., those who believed war was not justified).
“Asocials” were persecuted and some were taken to
concentration camps where they were forced to wear black triangles.
Background from 1933 to 1945: Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to “cleanse German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation’s health.”
Under Hitler, physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists were used to develop racial health policies beginning with mass sterilization of “genetically diseased” persons and ended with the near annihilation of European Jews.
Their massive programs of “cleansing” forced
some 400,000 sterilizations and some 275,000 euthanasia deaths that resulted in
the most-radical of all with the ruthless killing of 6 million Jews known in
the Holocaust, as well as 5 million others suffering under Nazi hatred and dislike
of them
Today we see examples from Gov.
Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX):
First Gov. DeSantis
in this timely article from the Orlando Weekly with the below headline:
“It's hard to keep up with the cultivated
chaos Gov. Ron DeSantis is wreaking on Florida schools”
Florida's public education system has taken a punch to the
gut not once, not twice, but multiple times over year. Even Orlando
Weekly staff have to admit it's been tough to keep up with the last
couple of months of chaos.
FLORIDA'S K-12 SYSTEM UNDER ATTACK:
Book bans and removals: School districts across FL, and
across the country, are pulling “controversial books” (predominantly those that
explore LGBTQ+ themes, or acknowledge that racism is real) from school library
shelves, including in teachers' own classrooms. A new state rule stemming from
a Republican-sponsored bill signed into law last year (HB 1467) requires
school-library employees (aka media specialists) to undergo new yearly training
sessions. The guidelines are part of a new law aimed at increasing scrutiny of
library books and instructional materials in Florida's public schools. To get
some idea of the direction this is going, one of the guidelines would require
avoiding “unsolicited theories that may lead to student indoctrination.”
Aside from the question of how a librarian can offer books
to a student while avoiding “unsolicited theories.”
One problem is that not every school has a media specialist
on staff. Plus, now there's something of a teacher/support staff shortage going
on in FL schools right now — go figure!
Another problem: This
new rule increases the workload of those that are in schools.
All books in school libraries, including teachers' classroom libraries, must be
approved by a qualified media specialist, scrutinized to ensure they're
age-appropriate, free from pornography and “suited to student needs.”
A lot more on DeSantis at the Orlando Weekly link above.
Now on to Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) going wild on his own seen in this article from the Texas Tribune with this headline:
“Greg Abbott ran as a small-government
conservative. But the governor’s office now has more power than ever.”
Abbott has consolidated power like none before him, at times
circumventing the GOP-controlled Legislature and overriding local officials. A
flurry of executive measures has solidified his base and raised his national
profile.
Days after being elected Texas governor in 2014, Gov. Abbott called a staff meeting to discuss his vision for leading the state, saying: “Our number one priority as public servants is is to follow the law. Adhering to the law was a way to ignore the pressure of politics, polls, money and lobbying.”
The Republican governor-elect said he rejected the path of Democratic President Barack Obama, whom he had sued 34 times as attorney general. Abbott claimed that Obama had usurped Congress’ power by using executive orders, including one to protect from deportation young people born in other countries and brought to the United States as children (the DACA program).
Now, nearly eight years into his governorship, Abbott’s
actions belie his words. He has consolidated power like no Texas governor in
recent history, at times circumventing the GOP-controlled state Legislature and
overriding local officials.
The governor used the pandemic to block judges from ordering
the release of some prisoners who couldn’t post cash bail and unilaterally
defunded the legislative branch because lawmakers had failed to approve some of
his top priorities. He also used his disaster authority to push Texas further
than any other state on immigration and was the first to send thousands of
immigrants by bus to Democratic strongholds (in DC, NYC, and Chicago for
example).
Impact of those wild decisions:
* D.C. Mayor Muriel
Bowser has spent more than $8 million in the last four months to address
the influx of migrants being transported to the nation's capital,
* Chicago
Mayor Lori Lightfoot has asked the state of Illinois for $50
million to care for migrants arriving in her city.
* NYC Mayor Eric
Adams has estimated that the 43,000 asylum seekers that the city has taken
since the spring have cost the city as much as $2 billion. It's not only the
costs but NYC is running out of places to house incoming migrants. Abbott's
decision to send migrants to cities unaccustomed to handling these numbers of
people has put emphasis on how demanding the influx of migrants has been on
Southern states. That has led the public to question what's being done to
address the issue. There are calls for Biden to deploy the military to assist
with the migrants. But, Sec. Def. Lloyd Austin has declined requests for the National
Guard to help with the transportation & reception of migrants saying it would
hurt the troop readiness.
More on Abbott at the
Texas Tribune link above.
My 2 Cents: Govs. DeSantis and Abbott are just simply out of
control and stand for nothing but turmoil and chaos and the proof as they say
is in the pudding and it ain’t pretty.
How or who can stop their
ugly nasty political stunts? The courts probably but mostly the voters – we shall
see how that goes in our deeply divided country.
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