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Artemis · 8w
Eugenics is intertwined with white supremacy. Here's the thing about that: with any tool of white supremacy, the gatekeepers of "official" knowledge are going to control the definition to keep it as ...
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Without interacting with people's actual experience & the systemic injustice involved, you're going to get a totally whack "understanding" of eugenics, because you will only see the pared-down "this is definitely a very small & limited problem" version of it that those who are actually promoting it (knowingly or not) would prefer.

"Of course, this thing that kills marginalized people couldn't be connected to eugenics! It doesn't say so on Wikipedia!"
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Artemis · 8w
I would bet that this person is cherry-picking the Wikipedia page anyway, but I can't be arsed to find out, because why would we ever expect Wikipedia to be a source of thorough, reliable, intersectional knowledge on this topic? (I'm stealing a British phrase, because "can't be arsed" is fantastic)