Schizautism

are actual children hurt because someone decided to draw a furry in a diaper? is literally anybody? what problem do you hope to solve by showing me their alt art account? this is a non-issue . It's an alt account because they keep it separate from their main art. For a reason.

clearly the art using the toddler as the reference was not meant to be pornography, as the artist said. Right now, all I'm seeing is an elementary school girl chanting 'Girls rule boys drool!' and stalking people's social media for any reason to hold a witch hunt against them. and terfs wonder why everybody fucking hates them

I got these back to back on my facebook feed. Now, I haven't read the Atlantic article, and also it was written in 2020 and not as a response to this couple, but clearly the Atlantic is reposting it with an incendiary pull line to capitalize on this couple's story.

And the pull line is ridiculous on its own, regardless of what context I'm missing from the article. Down syndrome is not an inherited trait like red hair or brown eyes. It's chromosomal abnormality. Talking about it like there's some kind of movement trying to "wipe out" a group of people is so intellectually dishonest. Down syndrome is not an ethnic group, and one woman aborting is not a call to murder all living people with Down syndrome.

So, in Western countries people with Down syndrome have the best resources available than ever before, but it's the also the "worst time" because many people are simply not being born? Huh? They're just not being born, not experience worse things than before. People are trying to "eliminate" Down syndrome because of the individual choice to abort, but not, uh, the collective choice to give those who are born with it the best possible life they can? Life expectancy going up does not change the face that you might have to bury your child before they're 40 or 30 or 20. School is not necessarily affordable, and school existing does not mean your child will be capable of it. A child in and out of the hospital getting heart stints is not the preferable way to live for a child or a parent. Can both choices not be from a place of love?

This argument makes no sense unless every Down syndrome child must be born. And so then why shouldn't every child be born? There's just no way around it, if you argue this way, you must ultimately think there is no reason "good enough" for abortion.

and who, I suppose, are not the ordinary people, that presumably had the power before? this is a rhetorical trick, you see. ordinary people aren't to be trusted. ordinary people do not deserve power. there are extraordinary people who can be trusted. ordinary people make decisions based on emotion, fear, from a lack of education. You're expected to nod your head like "of course. not me but I know the people you're talking about. the ones we all know who can't be trusted." Perhaps ordinary people do get some say on what life is "worth" bringing into the world. Perhaps the most ordinary person in the world, a woman, is actually precisely the most capable person to know the value of human life, and the cost of pregnancy and birth.

Yesterday my taxi driver opined about how all banks are run by Jews. Today my coworker told me Oct 7 was an Israeli false flag & Epstein was Mossad. A while back my partner’s family member said Israelis are eating Palestinian babies.

I’m not visibly Jewish & I’m pretty sure they don’t know I’m Jewish… but this keeps happening with greater frequency.

Maybe this is just the gestalt now? Everyone’s back on 1920’s style antisemitism and since it’s new & exciting again they’re all talking about it?