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mirkwood:

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist white scientist who decides to give a group of black men a STI and, instead of treating them for it, watch them slowly suffer from it so you can study it FOR SCIENCE.

Now imagine you’re the white supremacist sexist medical establishment that denies women the right to get their tubes tied unless they already have loads of kids and require them to get their husband’s permission while at the same time forcibly sterilising legions of native and black women.

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist psychologist who decides that slaves wanting to escape is a psychological disorder called “drapetomania” and the “cure” for that is lashings and cutting off toes.

Now imagine that you’re the “objective” and “scientific” medical establishment that deems queerness a disorder and decides that electroshock treatments or lobotomies are the effective solution or feels the need to “intervene” by surgically altering the bodies of intersex infants to fit your perceptions of what genitalia should look like.

Religion has done a lot of fucked up shit. But I’m sick and tired of people acting like SCIENCE hasn’t been involved in wars, death, and genocide either. And it’s the assumptive bullshit notion that ALL religions are somehow stupid and not worth your consideration that perpetuates this colonialist bullshit approach that white people have now upon Native and other individuals when tribes fight for the right to their sacred lands of, “Oh you’re religion is just hooey!” 

First they “civilised” us with religion and now it’s science and repatriation. Stealing native lands and native artefacts and native bodies FOR SCIENCE so you can profit off of them.

If you’re going to lay in on the death religion causes, IMO you better realise that there’s a difference between the bastion of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy that is modern Christianity and other religions which have little in the way of social power in comparison. AND you better recognise that science can be just another extention of white supremacist cisheteropartiarchy too and FURTHER the goals of that power structure rather than being as “objective” as they claim and countering it.

Haha. Imagine that.

Also, Ricky Gervais is a jerk.

May I add to this the cephalic index and institutionalized, eugenicist programs wherein orphaned and homeless children constitute “threat to mankind.”

uschivonschnauzer:

halfalipsticklesbian:

kikismisandryservice:

[MAJOR TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse, death]

lightspeedsound:

4-Year Old U.S. Adoptee Killed by “Water Therapy”

[TRIGGER WARNING: child abuse, death] As his 4-year-old adopted daughter Cassandra lay dying, Richard Killpack blamed her condition on “emotional problems” and “a really bad case of RAD [Reactive Attachment Disorder]” in his 911 call.

Killpack and his wife Jenette had punished the child for sneaking sips of her sister’s drink by sitting her on a bar stool, tying her hands behind her back with the help of their biological daughter, and forcing her to drink a lethal amount of water.

EMTs found the child unconscious with distended belly and pink foam from her mouth. Medical examiners declared cause of death water intoxication, a condition in which over-abundance of water causes sodium levels in the body to drop, resulting in fatal swelling of the brain.

“I said, ‘You’ll have to go to Mom and do the drinking-water thing,’” the Killpacks’ biological daughter Heather said in a police interview. ”She makes her drink ‘til she pukes.”

The Killpacks insist they were using “water therapy” to cure their adopted child’s disorder, stating in TV appearances that under the rules set by attachment therapists, Cassandra had to ask for everything, including food and water, “to help her understand dependency, that her mom and dad loved her.”

Sources: CNN |ACT

LE WHAT THE FUCK

i hope these people get burned alive. 

This poor baby. :(

oh god. That poor little baby. There are no words. I am no expert, but I do know some of the techniques used for RAD treatment. NONE of them violate or abuse the child. None that I know of. That hurts so bad to read. This is unacceptable.

OP here, and of all the oppressively shit-brained commentary that’s floating around this posting of mine, you white bio spawn who claim to know something about RAD yet refuse to actually read the damn article in full are the worst.

Seriously, one boggles at the mindless privilege of you folks WHO CAN’T EVEN BE BOTHERED TO SKIM THE DIRECTLY HYPERLINKED SOURCES BEFORE SHOOTING OFF YOUR IGNORANT MOUTHS ABOUT THE SYSTEMIC CHILD ABUSE AND MURDER THAT IN YOUR COMPLETE FUCKING IGNORANCE YOU HELP PROPAGATE.

“NONE of them violate or abuse the child. None that I know of.” And there we have the nature of privilege in a nutshell.

(Yes peeps I know I’m going all caps!lock Harry, but a) I am actually a magical freaking orphan, and b) that ass started it.)

I refuse to repeat myself, there aren’t enough spoons in the world. I’ll only deign to say that it’s not just Third World transracial war “orphans” like myself you’ve just made a foolish asshole of yourself in front of, it’s also my fellow Class Bastards who are white domestic adoptees invariably diagnosed with this Eurocentric pseudoscientific “RAD” bullshit and then tortured accordingly, ESPECIALLY if they happen to be queer (read the damn linked sources, fool).

You’re welcome.