What is going on, fake causes of diseases and anti Vax is the tip of the iceberg.
Medicalization of social problems: Medical practitioners played a central role in promoting and implementing the regime’s goals by redefining social and political issues as medical problems. The state was framed as the primary “patient,” and its “health” required the elimination of undesirable elements.“Life unworthy of life”: This central principle (LebensunwertesLeben) was used to justify the killing of those considered a biological and financial burden on society. It targeted individuals with physical and mental disabilities, including those deemed “feebleminded,” chronically ill, or otherwise “defective”.
Forced sterilization: The 1933 “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases” mandated the involuntary sterilization of those diagnosed with alleged hereditary ailments, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, Huntington’s chorea, and “feeblemindedness.” By the end of the Nazi regime, an estimated 400,000 people were forcibly sterilized.
The T4 Euthanasia Program: Beginning in 1939, this program involved the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with physical and mental disabilities. Initially involving children, the program expanded to adults, killing an estimated 250,000 people.
The US waged a campaign of sterilization in Puerto Rico to slow down it’s population growth and to prevent it from becoming a state. The US also regularly sterilized Latinas up until the 1970’s
What is going on, fake causes of diseases and anti Vax is the tip of the iceberg.
Medicalization of social problems: Medical practitioners played a central role in promoting and implementing the regime’s goals by redefining social and political issues as medical problems. The state was framed as the primary “patient,” and its “health” required the elimination of undesirable elements.“Life unworthy of life”: This central principle (LebensunwertesLeben) was used to justify the killing of those considered a biological and financial burden on society. It targeted individuals with physical and mental disabilities, including those deemed “feebleminded,” chronically ill, or otherwise “defective”.
Forced sterilization: The 1933 “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases” mandated the involuntary sterilization of those diagnosed with alleged hereditary ailments, such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, Huntington’s chorea, and “feeblemindedness.” By the end of the Nazi regime, an estimated 400,000 people were forcibly sterilized.
The T4 Euthanasia Program: Beginning in 1939, this program involved the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with physical and mental disabilities. Initially involving children, the program expanded to adults, killing an estimated 250,000 people.
Eugenics was very popular before WWII, that’s definitely not limited to a single country.
The US waged a campaign of sterilization in Puerto Rico to slow down it’s population growth and to prevent it from becoming a state. The US also regularly sterilized Latinas up until the 1970’s
Yeah, and we’re in good company.
(To be clear, this is reprehensible. But it’s not helpful to focus solely on the US on this topic.)