Here’s something that deeply disturbs me.
Now, according to the Wikipedia page on eugenics:
Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was infamous for eugenics programs which attempted to maintain a “pure” German race through a series of programs that ran under the banner of “racial hygiene”.
. In a modern context, it would mean selectively discriminating against a gene which the parent didn’t see as pure. For example, imagine a desperate couple wanting IVF treatment, but stipulating that it must be blond with blue eyes, because anything else would be defective and therefore not pure in your idea of a master race.
Fast forward 70 years and have a listen to this:
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Here’s a transcript provided by Stop Eugenics. It doesn’t say what its stance is on this matter – I’m assuming it would be against embryo selection.
I’m glad to see I’m not alone in being utterly appalled at this according to this BBC Have Your Say.
He sees anyone as having all five senses as being inferior. How sad it is that we can’t appreciate a deaf play. Every single comment had him looking down at the inferior beings with their wretched sense of hearing. For he wants to make the pure, superior race with their master language and ability to need a translator to interpret everything for them.
Clearly, this Tomato Lichy is a very selfish, self-centred individual. Let’s just hope his next child doesn’t suffer because of his mental illness.
UPDATE: The Moral Maze covered this – here is the audio
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Notes: Here’s an interesting blog, showing the kind of in-fighting that this so-called “audism” brings about.
What’s he saying in the videos? I have no idea. And I’m very sorry I don’t use BSL, but I can’t read Braille either. But then, I don’t speak Urdu either – does that make me a racist?
Related: The Guardian – “I hoped our baby would be deaf“