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@astraia_esprit

Apr 15, 2020

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so I have a pretty #UnpopularOpinion about #eugenics... I don’t want to have a kid because of my genetic conditions. I would be happy to adopt or foster or some variant of that, but I do not want to have a natural child who I know would very likely get my conditions.

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Holy shit, I'm amazed you had to pepper that with so many qualifiers. How is that even a controversial opinion? Wtf kind of crowd is following you? I think that you had to frame it that way makes me angry on your behalf.

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I phrased it the way I did not because of my following - not because of the internet - not because of some special way I had to frame it - but because I was being cognizant of others opinions on the subject and know that my opinion is only mine. This is anthropology at is core

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No I mean, I think I actually mean something different. Like my audience actually does not interpret things in the damaging way you're trying to protect against. I think you and I are coming from two extremely different schools of thought here.

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I mean ..... based on what I was seeing from some of your followers and people defending you on here, it sounds like they don’t understand the problematic nature of it.... because they are not apart of the group of people you’re talking about...?

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This is sort of central? I can feel myself getting frustrated at Twitter cause the things I properly want to explain will take up a lot of space. But I think your point is highlighting part of why I'm standing by what I'm doing.

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Wait which point? do you mean it’s central that your followers are majority abled and that’s part of why you’re posting things likethis? I don’t get how that makes it ok to torment others who aren’t your followers tho?

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But see there's this concept of 'torment' that I'm really careful to agree is happening. My understanding of an accusation like this is that it's a complicated minefield and historically has often been used in ways I strongly disagree with.

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As in, I came out of a very religious community who used similar concepts about 'causing pain' and 'hurting us' when the thing I was doing was just expressing my ideas. And like... they weren't wrong, but I learned that I need to have boundaries around that.

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Oooof fuck that gives me a lot of context for where you’re coming from honestly - I feel you tho I had a very similar experience w religion and criticism. I think ultimately a religious identity and an identity associated w a genetic condition are very different

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I don't think they're really different? Like, obviously there are differences, like all comparisons have differences, but the similarities here are precisely the thing I'm talking about.

7:02 PM · Apr 15, 2020

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A big part of my thinking revolves around identifying "actual harm". This is still a grey area and I'm not claiming I have concrete answers, but there's at least a spectrum, and things too far on the other side of the spectrum for "imagined harm" are things I give into less.

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