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  1. The underlying message is that people who don't serve capitalism deserve to die. It's the same message we hear from leaders about covid: a certain number of people they consider expendable must die for The Economy. The purported left wing party also adopted that message.

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  2. Im epileptic. Im a historian of disability and medicine. Ive taught eugenics histories for over a decade. This ad is the perfect example of how certain kinds of eugenicist discourse about genes have been normalized, and I will be using it in lectures. It is not a made up controversy.

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  3. I get why able bodied white people give unlimited benefit of the doubt to the ad when white nationalism/eugenics are mainstream. Those of us who aren't able bodied white people don't have the luxury to pretend the ad is just about jeans.

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    Im epileptic. Im a historian of disability and medicine. Ive taught eugenics histories for over a decade. This ad is the perfect example of how certain kinds of eugenicist discourse about genes have been normalized, and I will be using it in lectures. It is not a made up controversy.

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