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tsimionescutoday at 6:28 AM3 repliesview on HN

How is it not? In the not so distant past of the 1930s there were political parties advocating for the mass killing of people with disabilities, or at least the sterilization of those with heritable disabilities. There have been real campaigns in that period that did this type of forced sterilization, especially in some mental hospitals. You'll still find people espousing such beliefs, thankfully at the fringes for now.

Accessibility is the opposite position of that - but it's by no means a universally accepted good, unfortunately, especially when it requires extra effort to implement.


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dlisboatoday at 12:29 PM

> In the not so distant past of the 1930s there were political parties advocating for the mass killing of people with disabilities

Those parties still exist today.

- https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/fox-friends-h...

pier25today at 5:00 PM

Seems weird to me that anyone would frame it like this.

In my country (Spain) we put eg ramps for wheelchairs no matter the political party. It's considered a human rights or moral issue, not a political one.

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arp242today at 12:34 PM

Going from "we're a small non-profit and we're struggling finding a good solution that's also accessible, this really sucks – we're sorry" to eugenics is quite a leap.

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