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The Conflict with the COVID Deniers and Politics
I was reminded that forced sterilization was used during the Trump administration. I honestly forgot. Thank you.
We are living at a moment when science has become a liberal thing. In fact, for the first time in a Western Democracy, science is now political. This is utterly dangerous, because the moment we have a Republican administration, we might experience the kind of political science that existed in both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Neither of these was a healthy relationship with facts. It was a good thing, to a point. Because the denial that a Jew could do science, and the belief that there was Jewish Math, delayed the German nuclear project. For the Soviets, psychiatry, in particular, became a tool of oppression. They used it to punish those who were deviant within the system but had committed no crime.
That they used medication, forced hospital care, and even forced feeding should not surprise us. That the Russian state is again using this tool, should be all but shocking. After all, Vladimir Putin is a veteran of the KGB, and internal dissent is hardly tolerated in police states.
We did some of this with the eugenics programs of the 1920s and 30s. With the last forced sterilization done in Oregon in 1981. It was done all for the purity and cleansing of the race. In other…