Jonathan Mooney
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829 appearances
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first heard Jun 2021
last heard Dec 2024
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the eugenics movement.
Partly because we don't know anything about the eugenics movement as a whole.
You know, uh you pull, you know, ten folks, may may maybe two or three have heard of it.
And it it was a a global movement, uh, for those listeners not familiar with it, that sought out to systemically eradicate.
people with deficiencies.
Not my words, their words.
And it was a a global movement that got institutionalized and was endorsed by the highest levels of academia, uh, endorsed by uh the highest levels of government, uh, both in the US and abroad.
And it fed a a system of of institutions, that's the word for it, um, where folks were incarcerated.
who were sort of deemed deficient.
And it it was the foundational ideology of of Nazi Germany and the final solution.
The the notion that uh there were uh good and right, normal humans and deficient humans.
Um the first group uh to be systemically targeted in the Third Reich, the first group to be rounded up.
uh put into uh uh institutions and targeted for elimination and in many cases eliminated uh were people with atypical brains and bodies in a in a little talked about uh movement called operation T4.
And so it was really important for us to um for me to surface that history, to share that history, because it's not just in the past, but it's in the present and could be in the future.
To go back to what we were talking about a minute ago.
You know, when we uh dehumanize a person by calling them sick and defective, it leads to the quote unquote logical conclusion of, well, let's get rid of that less than human.
So we we have to be mindful of that always.
Um I also think uh it's important for us to understand the way that that uh a view of which human is normal and not got embedded.
Embedded in policy, got embedded in systems, got embedded in language and academic knowledge.
In the same way that rightfully so, we as a culture are naming the institutionalized practices around racism, redlining, et cetera.
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