I love being disabled in a world turning fascist. Love. It.
many people dont realize this. disabled people were also gassed during the holocaust.
It wasnt even just people we’d consider disabled today. It was also people who were entirely capable of working and being part of society and had no disability but just happened to have a condition they didn’t like. The Nazi’s were eugenicists. They wanted to kill anyone they didn’t think should be making babies essentially. So you could even just have had a family history of certain illnesses and they’d throw you in a gas chamber. Even if you personally were 100% in perfect health. A lot of that gets lost in translation because the term disabled hasn’t been super cleanly defined across the last century. Plus since their science back then was pretty basic half the time they’d call stuff genetic conditions that weren’t even such. Like there is a non 0 chance you could have gotten a bad rash on your face and they’d have been like “Oh my god! This person has dirty blood! Gas them!”
I think that’s important to note because when talking about the holocaust a lot of the time people act like the Nazi’s had some sort of list of categories they’d go after and as long as you weren’t in one of those categories you’d have been fine. That simply isn’t the case. While being a jew, visibly disabled, gay, etc was definitely not ideal, and you were in more danger, other people weren’t safe either. A lot of who got gassed came down to simple bad luck. Being at the wrong place at the wrong time and pissing off some Nazi who decided to put your name on a list.
That or being a communist, or slavic. People forget that the Nazis didn’t kill 6 million people, the number is (at conservative estimates) closer to 14 million, with the plurality being the six million Jews, but not the majority, the majority were of all other kinds of dispositions considered disposable by the Nazis. And they get swept under the rug for the Holocaust narrative. In fact, by true majority and plurality, most of those killed were ethnic Slavs, which is always conveintly forgotten when talking about how evil Russia is.
The 14 million number doesn’t even do it justice either. There were like 27 million total deaths on the USSR side its just a lot of them happened in the field rather than in the camps. 6 million is nowhere near the Nazi kill count. It’s much closer to 50 million when you take everything into account. The famines, the wars, the camps, all of it.
queer people also will often just not get mentioned in western liberal account of the holocaust it makes me personally very sad
Yuuuup it’s been terrifying watching libs do a 180 on ableism as soon as right-wing politics becomes the status quo again
Japan shouldn’t have even been allowed to have their “self defense force,” Germany (neither of them!) shouldn’t have been allowed to have a military, and certainly those militaries should never have been allowed to expand.
It should be a violation of international law to even bring military equipment inside the borders of Germany or Japan. The whole countries should be demilitarized zones, where even the cops don’t have access to guns.
The only military presence in those countries should be bases run by the countries they occupied. China and Korea get bases in Japan, Russia and France get bases in Germany. Yankees go home this has nothing to do with you.
