How Conservatives use Covid-19 to advance Nazi style eugenics agenda

[LJ_Reloaded]

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/eugenics-isnt-going-to-save-you-from-coronavirus.html

The economy must be a hungry god. Dan Patrick, the lieutenant governor of Texas, believes grandparents will sacrifice themselves for it. At the Federalist, a writer wondered if social distancing had gone a bit too far, had denied the god his rightful due. “It seems harsh to ask whether the nation might be better off letting a few hundred thousand people die,” he admitted. “Yet honestly facing reality is not callous, and refusing even to consider whether the present response constitutes an even greater evil than the one it intends to mitigate would be cowardly.” Rusty Reno, the editor of First Things, a conservative Christian journal, decried the “demonic side to the sentimentalism of saving lives at any cost.” Society requires triage, Reno suggested, not as a last resort, but as a preemptive measure. Some people are too expensive to save.

Within the conservative Establishment, the economy has other willing priests. Economist Stephen Moore recently told the Washington Post that public-health officials, while “vital,” had perhaps become too rigid. “You can’t have a policy that says we’re going to save every human life at any cost, no matter how many trillions of dollars you’re talking about,” he said. We’re “going to have to make some difficult tradeoffs,” Larry Kudlow, the director of President Trump’s National Economic Council, warned on Fox. Some even offered themselves up as tribute. Jesse Kelly, a professional Twitter user and occasional pundit, said he would “happily die” to save his beloved country from another Great Depression.

But no one is asking Jesse Kelly to die. They’re asking it of your grandparents, and of your neighbor with cancer; they ask it of me and of you, too, if your body is flawed or simply unlucky. The views expressed by Patrick and Reno and Moore, and by the Federalist’s various agitprop artists, are eugenics. They separate human life into categories. In one box, there are people worth saving. In the other, there are people we ought to let die. Believing this makes them eugenicists. What they contemplate is not quite mass murder, but a sort of planned, negligent homicide. Patrick doesn’t want to build gas chambers. He just wants to let nature take its course. The fit will survive the cull.

Conservatives are inordinately fond of calling people eugenicists. For years, they’ve applied the label to the pro-choice movement. The reasoning tends to gallop. Abortion is murder, ergo, parents who terminate a pregnancy because of fetal defects or disability participate in a eugenicist exercise. In this way, conservatives turn people with disabilities into useful props. The conservative can point at a child, turn on the tears, and scold you for wanting to murder him in the womb. It’s a cheap trick, notable mostly for shock value. I am not as sick as some, and not as handy an object lesson. Nevertheless, I have long understood that my value to the right ended when I left my mother’s body. For many conservatives, a fetus is the ultimate blank slate. Its value is determined by others; it cannot contradict them, or put forward its own ideas. It can’t ask to be treated a particular way or stray from God’s light. Best of all, it requires nothing from anyone but a womb. People, by contrast, are cumbersome. They make demands, have wills of their own. And alas for the priests of small government, people are expensive, especially if they need regular medical care.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The fit will survive the cull.

That's just the way it is. When it gets to the point we can keep everyone alive, regardless, Houston we have a problem.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

The fit will survive the cull.

That's just the way it is. When it gets to the point we can keep everyone alive, regardless, Houston we have a problem.

You're only saying that because you haven't been infected.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You're only saying that because you haven't been infected.

How do I know? I haven't been tested. I have a few good years left.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

How do I know? I haven't been tested. I have a few good years left.

You don't know. You could be infected and about to die or killing your loved ones. But they don't matter now do they?

 

[Saint_Ann]

You don't know. You could be infected and about to die or killing your loved ones. But they don't matter now do they?

Nobody here is dying of that. The Angel Of Death seems to have passed us by. I'm sure something else will eventually come along.

Everyone is scrambling to use CV19 to promote their political ends...kinda like yourself there.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Nobody here is dying of that. The Angel Of Death seems to have passed us by. I'm sure something else will eventually come along.

Everyone is scrambling to use CV19 to promote their political ends...kinda like yourself there.

You don't know if you have it or not. You even said you haven't been tested. Pride goeth before the fall, you know.

 

[Saint_Ann]

You don't know if you have it or not. You even said you haven't been tested. Pride goeth before the fall, you know.

I'm too mean to let some Chinese virus take me out.

 

[Worm]

Lambs blood painted door. I shall pass.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Lambs blood painted door. I shall pass.

This is God's country...or is it Gods' country? Or CV19 couldn't find the place.

 

[SpeareChucker]

LT, even for you, this is really breaking new grounds of crazy...

 

[SpeareChucker]

You don't know if you have it or not. You even said you haven't been tested. Pride goeth before the fall, you know.

LT - you know when you have "something..."


There's no test for that.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I'm too mean to let some Chinese virus take me out.

Pride goeth before the fall.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Pride goeth before the fall.

Hell...I beat cancer. I'm on borrowed time anyway.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Hell...I beat cancer. I'm on borrowed time anyway.

The deadliest of the seven sins...

 

[Saint_Ann]

The deadliest of the seven sins...

Sloth?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Sloth?

Pride.

 

[Saint_Ann]

Pride.

You might take my lack of fear as pride. If not for a random occurrence (act of God?) I would be dead now.

 

[MassiveGiantBrain]

oddly out of focus

So many seem so oddly out of focus on everything to do with the China Virus.

There REAL threat to life and wellbeing is the SOURCE of this problem in the first place.

Far more serious than the virus itself is the evil government in China that did this to the world. But that is not the focus of many "news" outlets.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

You might take my lack of fear as pride. If not for a random occurrence (act of God?) I would be dead now.

Matthew 4:7 KJV: "Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."