Reminder that 160 years ago people thought it made perfect sense to say you were "pro-Negro welfare" but not an abolitionist https://twitter.com/veronikellymars/status/823637596005863424 …
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Which was, in fact, the "respectable" stance of "moderates" like Abraham Lincoln (who only became an abolitionist bc of the war)
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Also it was perfectly possible to be an abolitionist but say you supported segregation and were against racial equality
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Anyway lots of people in the past proudly identified as "pro-life feminists", sure, but they were wrong
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*shrug* More people should know the word "biodeterminism", it clarifies why the pro-life position is crap
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The idea that because something is perceived to be "natural" that means that concepts of rights and equity don't apply to it
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If you spend a lot of time among disability rights activists you get to see the issues with this framing pretty much every day
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If aliens came down in spaceships to forcibly alter our DNA so half the population had to be incubators suddenly, we'd see the problem
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H.G. Wells - who was in normal life an asshole eugenicist - still got this concept clearly enough to write a story about it
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"In the Country of the Blind", where when a sighted person shows up in a society of ppl who've always been blind, he's the disabled one
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Anyway I've always been partial to Judith Jarvis Thomson's "violinist argument" bc it neatly sidesteps all the stupid "when does life start"
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What if you woke up in a society where dying adults could suddenly latch onto you randomly out of nowhere if you went outside
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And they have to stay stuck to you, risking your health and reducing your mobility, for nine months in order to save their lives
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