In Virginia c. 1956, my grandmother was supposed to have an appendectomy. The Navy surgeon did this and also performed a radical hysterectomy (involuntary sterilization). It was said the surgeon was drunk, but it could've been a purposeful policy back then too.
"California is prepared to... pay... an estimated $25,000 each."
What a joke. Compensation for state forced sterilization should be orders of magnitude greater than that.
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How have these cases not gone to the supreme court? I understand these people might be of little means, but surely some org like the ACLU could represent the case.
They have gone to SCOTUS and SCOTUS said it was constitutional. This is generally seen as one of their worst decisions and it still technically stands:
I think these people should absolutely be compensated, but I cannot help but notice one thing. CA will use my tax money to compensate them. In this case, I don't mind, because it's the right thing to do. But I was obviously never a part of any of these decisions, I obviously have never voted for people who did this stupid shit, etc etc. Yet I end up paying for it. That seems to be a pretty big problem with the decision making process then. I would like to hold the fuckers who wasted 2.26 trillion dollars, ~3000 American lives and countless local lives over 20 years to hand Afghanistan from Taliban back to Taliban, achieving absolutely nothing. But who do you hold accountable for it? Using the democratic process, you punish Bush by voting him out? Well, he's long gone. Most of those fuckers are enjoying their retirement, they will never be held accountable for any of this, yet here we are paying for their insane decisions.
There are actions that we’re responsible for individually and actions we’re responsible for collectively, and in the case of the latter, there is often inherited responsibility that we must answer for even though we individually didn’t have anything to do with it.
It’s the reality of being a community, large or small.
In theory, war criminals get tried and punished accordingly. Since none of them do, clearly the majority isn’t in control of state power in most countries.
As always, the solution is for the majority that do all the work to directly seize state power in a revolution.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 53.9 ms ] threadBut she was obviously owed an explanation she did not receive.
What a joke. Compensation for state forced sterilization should be orders of magnitude greater than that.
edit: P.s. How have these cases not gone to the supreme court? I understand these people might be of little means, but surely some org like the ACLU could represent the case.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
It’s the reality of being a community, large or small.
As always, the solution is for the majority that do all the work to directly seize state power in a revolution.
They just can't compete with the State & media power that convinces their peers that everything is business as usual.
"Manufactured Consent"
-adopted orphan who grew up in an intelligent house full of books and is seemingly considered above average in most metrics.