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hello-nichya-here · 2 years

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Do you think that minors, while being 100% serious in their right mind, are allowed to ask to be euthanized and/or if living causes them a lot of pain? Do people have the right to choose to die?

Any person that isn't seen as mentally ready to drive, drink, have sex, vote, have full finantial independence, live alone, get a tattoo, get cosmetic surgery, move to a different continent by themselves, work full time, get married, raise/adopt a child, start their own business, run for president, be held fully accountable for any crimes they commit - just basically do whatever they want with their own life, and deal with the consequences, like any adult is legally entitled to - CANNOT, in any circumstance, "decide" to end said life. Child exploitation laws exist for a reason.

Now, about people having the right to end their own life, we need to remember that NO ONE just "chooses" to die. Something is forcing their hand.

Maybe they have depression, maybe they're struggling to move past a traumatic experience, maybe they're being abused, maybe they're facing some kind of oppression and feel is pointless to keep fighting for basic rights, maybe they just took a look at the horrible state the world is in and lost hope, maybe they have no money and don't want to slowly starve to death. There's ALWAYS something.

No matter what, the solution is NOT letting them give into despair, but trying to fix the problem. Killing these people would not be mercy or respecting their wishes, it would be taking advantage of them while they're vulnerable. That's not euthanasia, it's just straight up murder - often systematic murder (just look at how many diseabled people are victims of "mercy killing", by their own families, because some people see disability as worse than death).

And even when we look at situations where euthanasia could be seen as an option, when people are suffering from an incurable illness that is keeping them in a constant state of physical and mental agony, we cannot forget that many deseases that were seen as a death sentence now have cures because doctors wouldn't give up on their patients.

Even the ones that don't have cures yet are easier to prevent. For exemple, there are many people that are HIV positive and never develop AIDS (which was once seen as "the gay plague" and so goverments refused to prevent it from spreading because they thought it'd "only kill the right people") and can even have children without infecting their partner or their child with the virus.

Life is unfair and that means death can sometimes feel like the only option. It isn't.

#asks #death #euthanasia #ableism #homophobia #aids #hiv #abuse #murder #systematic oppression #mental illness #triggering subjects #important

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luminalunii97 · 2 years

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Faranak Amidi, an Iranian feminist, tweets about morality police and forced religion. It is brought up by the recent catastrophe in Iran. A 22 year old woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by morality police for not wearing her hijab "properly". She was beaten brutally that resulted in brain injury. This is the thing we deal with on a daily basis in Iran. This is a bold example of freedom and human rights violation. This dystopia is not fictional.

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mrsblackruby · 2 years

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We all rot away in the end guess I like strained hope better than nothing…

I just need to vent so bad because I hate the cycle of abuse and I hate systematic abuse and I hate seeing us all rot to our core instead of trying to heal what’s broken. And I don’t know what to do about it but I don’t want to take joy in watching humanity fail itself. Even though I admittedly sometimes take joy in our foreseeable downfall knowing that it will all be over. But there’s always hope in me that maybe we start caring about one another again and stop wishing harm to are fellow man but maybe I’m naïve.

#actuallytraumatized #actually traumatized #actually mentally ill #actually adhd #transformative justice #abolish the police #abolish prisons #abolish the death penalty #systematic oppression #systematic discrimination #systematic failure #trauma #childhood trauma #depression #my edit #my art is trash #vent #life quotes #depressing quotes

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simpforcatsystem · 2 years

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Not to mention the fact that ASD is supposed to be a spectrum disorder. That's what it's supposed to be. And any and all spectrum disorders need to include that not all symptoms might be present/disabling. The recent change in the DSM-V-TR listing of ASD necessitated that all symptoms be present, which by design makes it not a spectrum disorder.

We can talk about why they did this, namely the large increase in self-awareness and diagnosis due to increased resources that have challenged the status quo in terms of the dominant neurotype, but I want to talk about the specific wording they used, and why this isn't the change they're looking for.

By doing this, they're essentially moving back to the DSM-IV, which listed Aspergers as a separate disorder from Autism due to relative lack of impairment, except this time we don't have Aspergers as a diagnosis. They're specifically and intentionally leaving out a body of people who are struggling and significantly disabled and in need of resources because they don't like what the numbers are saying they're doing to that population.

To specify the changes made, there is still the 2 of 4 required for the diagnostic section of repetitive behaviors. But the section for social defects, specifically the one that is often underscored in minorities and women due to masking and compensation, now requires all three, which makes even less sense than changing the criteria for repetitive behavior due to the discriminatory factors and the fact that they started out by saying they would use the TR to make it MORE inclusive and account for those who are divergent in their presentation due to other factors or variables.

The only way I can see to fix this while maintaining the changes made is to bring back the Aspergers profile in the DSM, likely under another name because there's little use in keeping a name that is after someone specifically discriminatory. The irony.

And all this because they couldn't handle the fact that our society is far more diverse than they thought or wanted. I remember being so excited at the update. Ridiculous.

#autism #actually autistic #dsm 5 #dsm 5 tr #psychiatry #psychology #im actually really mad about this #the previous post just reminded me #autistic pride #systematic oppression #what the fuck yall #they really said fuck the poor and marginalized

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terribletaletime · 1 year

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An essay I wrote for school a few years ago, maybe two or three, about systematic racism in America. I feel it still holds up.

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Systematic racism in America has been a debated thing for a very long time. Chances are, this very subject has started a fight or two at a family dinner. It’s not necessarily the argument that systematic racism ever existed, because it would truly be hard and ignorant to deny that most of America was built on the backs of slaves, the argument is more if it still exists or not, if white Americans still benefit from it. The answer found through research is that yes, black Americans are still feeling the devastating effects from systemic racism.

To be able to talk about the current day effects systemic racism has, we need to go back to the roots of it. Let’s talk about segregation. Segregation was the separation of white Americans and black Americans, started in 1896 when the supreme court declared it legal. This allowed white Americans to have finer jobs, housing, busing, and schooling, white black Americans had the more severely underfunded and poor versions of all of these. According to history.com, during the great depression unemployment rates for white men were around 39% while depending on the area, for black men it was anywhere from 50% to 60%. Segregation made it easy for the white men to get good jobs, and the black men to be unemployed. During segregation, black Americans were seen as a shameful thing that many companies did not want to be associated with.

Black families were struggling, and to make matters worse, many practices to make good housing for them were arising. According to History.com, there were zoning laws and red-lining during 1930-1970 that made it very easy for politicians to mark off black-segregated housing areas as dangerous and poor. Because of this, it made it incredibly expensive or impossible for black home owners to get loans. Not only this, but in Richmond, Virgina, white politicians passed a law that made it illegal for a person to move into a neighborhood in which they could not marry most of the residents in the area, and considering that anti-mixed race laws were put in place during that time, it meant that black families could not move into mostly white areas.

In 1877, segregated schools became a legal concept, and a disheartening one. Schools made specifically for black students were also severely underfunded. Many of the contributing factors came from segregation, as the public schools were supported by tax dollars and in poor communities where unemployment was so common they just didn’t get the money they needed. According to loc.gov students in the black segregated high school in Kingston, North Carolina were asked what their ideal classroom contained, and they soon came to realize that everything they had dreamed of, like basic supplies and bigger classrooms, the white school had.

Because of white Americans being able to have access to better schooling and a wider range of jobs, white Americans prospered more. They completed highschool at a higher rate, which according to census.gov, in 1960, meant about a twenty one percent difference. The percent of Americans twenty-five years old and over who had completed four or more years of highschool was about forty-one percent for white Americans, while black Americans were only usually able to graduate about twenty percent of the time. In the same year the statistics for Americans who were twenty-five years old and older and completed four years of college were looked at. There they found that about eight percent of white Americans have finished and graduated, and only three percent of black Americans were able to finish and graduate.

Tie it all together and now you have a system that is designed for black families to be poor. They were forced into poor, dangerous neighborhoods and because of unemployment rates, red-lining, and discriminatory laws, they were forced to stay there. Not only that but their education was poor, which meant it was even harder to get good grades, graduate, go to college, and/or get a good job. There is no denying that in 1890s-1970s systematic racism was a plain and open concept. Everyone knows it, it’s quite impossible to deny.

The big debate is not over whether or not systematic racism ever existed, because with slavery and segregation there’s just no possible way to deny that it ever was here, but rather it’s over if systematic racism still exists. Many deny it, saying that because the laws are no longer there, that there is no possible way that the concept still could exist. However, that argument can easily be proved to be wrong. It’s almost like an olympic race. The white contestants were able to run free, while the black contestants had to run with their legs tied, and then halfway through the race officials decided that it was unfair and cut their legs free. Though, instead of making measures to make sure that they’d be able to catch up and make up for the unfair start they had, like maybe pausing or restarting the race, they instead just told them to continue running.

Once legal segregation ended, black families couldn’t just magically move out of the poor communities. The years of unemployment and poor education left them without the money they needed to be able to move out of the communities. Some families got lucky, they were able to get jobs, get a proper education, and move into good areas, however those opportunities for many were rare, and still are. What this ended up causing many black families falling into poverty. If you look at mostly any state in America, you’ll find the poverty rates in the state’s black communities are higher than in it’s white communities.

Looking at the 2017 poverty rate and population counts from KFF.org, Texas.gov, and theatlantic.com, three major states show this poverty inequality; Texas, New York, and Florida.

In Texas the overall white population was estimated to be around 11,779,132 and the estimated amount of white residents in poverty were estimated to be around 775,800 people. The overall population for its black residents was around 3,289,228 and the estimated amount of black Texans in poverty was around 547,900. This all means that, despite the fact that there is an overall population difference of 8,489,904 people, there were only an estimated amount of 227,900 more white residents than black residents in poverty.

If you boil all of these long complicated numbers down, the total population for white Texans overall is around fifteen times bigger than the population for those white texans in poverty, however the overall population for black residents is only six times bigger than the population than those in poverty.

Almost the same can be said for New York. The total population for White New Yorkers was 10,652,400 while the poverty population was 781,500. The total population for Black New Yorkers was 2,735,300 while the poverty population was 507,800. There is an overall population difference of 7,917,100 more white New Yorkers than Black New Yorkers, however the difference for the poverty rates is only 273,700. This means that the white population is around thirteen times bigger than it’s poverty population, however the black population is only an estimated amount of five times bigger.

Lastly, the same pattern was found in florida. The White Floridian population was at an estimated number of 11,058,700 and their poverty population was at 833,700. While the black Floridian population was 3,097,400 and with a poverty population of 587,600. Even though there was an overall population difference of 7,961,300 between the white residents and black residents, the white ones being in larger amounts than the black ones, there was only a difference of 246,100 in poverty rates. This also means that the overall population for white Floridians was thirteen times the poverty rates, while the overall population for black Floridians was only five times more.

What all of these big and confusing numbers mean is that there is an immense divide inequality in the communities. If things in America were truly equal, then the rations would boil down to the same numbers. For example, since in Florida the white population is thirteen times the poverty population, equality would mean that the black population would also be thirteen times the poverty population. So, instead of the high number of 587,600, it would only be around 238,261 people. However, the poverty rates for white and black populations are only off by around two or three hundred thousand people, which when you look at it alone may seem like a big divide, but when you look at the overall populations it’s actually really small. The white populations overall tower over the black populations by the millions, yet somehow only two hundred to three hundred thousand more white Americans are in poverty than black Americans in each state.

Systematic racism, whether we like it or not, exists in America. Though the horrible laws like segregation, zoning, and the marriage housing laws that got us to that point many years ago are now gone, the effects of them never really went away. The poverty gained from these laws stayed. Just because people now legally could move into stable white neighborhoods and move to the well funded schooling didn’t mean they financially could. They were still poor from the lack of opportunities, and the lack of money, for many, carried on through their kids as they suffered from their parent’s poverty and poor education from their area. Looking over the 2017 statistics and poverty, these gaps become horridly undeniable.

If you compare the graduation rates between 1960 and 2012 then it’s clear to see that we’re getting better. According to governing.com, white Americans nationwide graduated at a rate of eighty-six percent, while black American students graduated at a rate of sixty-nine percent. While white Americans still clearly have the upper hand, there is a noticeable positive change. Instead of the disheartening graduation rate of about twenty percent in 1960, the number rose by forty-nine percent. Because things are better, many people like to deny that there is still a problem. However, just because things are better than what they were, doesn’t mean that things are good. Imagine if someone was dying from cancer, and they finally found a medicine that is working. The cancer is being managed, but isn’t fully gone and still poses a threat to the person. People who deny systematic racism still being a thing because the numbers are better than what they used to be would be like someone going up to the cancer patient and telling them that their disease no longer lives inside of them because they’re healthier than they once were. At the end of the day, the disadvantages are still there, and we as Americans, instead of turning a blind eye to them should strive to finally close the gap and go for true equality.

#systematic oppression #systematic racism #racisim #blacklivesmatter #black lives fucking matter #blm

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hiddenrituals · 2 years

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The entertainment industry is an extremely mentally oppressive system therefor a bigger problem than our government.

#humanity #spirituality #deep in thought #spiritualism #meditation #spiritualwarfare #government #entertainment #entertainment industry #oppression #mental illness #egotistical #systematic failure #systematic oppression #secrets and lies

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sharry-arry-odd · 2 years

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"It was a weapon, Kovacs. All weapons are horrible. You think targeting the Harlan family by blood is any worse than the nuclear blast they used against us at Matsue? Forty-five thousand people vaporized because there were Quellist safe houses in there somewhere. You want to talk about pretty fucking horrible? In New Hokkaido I saw whole towns leveled by flat-trajectory shelling from government forces. Political suspects executed by the hundreds with a blaster bolt through the stack. Is that any less horrible? Is the Qualgrist Protocol any less discriminating than the systems of economic oppression that dictate you'll rot your feet in the belaweed farms or your lungs in the processing plants, scrabble for purchase on rotten rock, and fall to your death trying to harvest ledgefruit, all because you were born poor?" "You're talking about conditions that haven't existed for three hundred years," I said mildly. "But that's not the point. It's not the Harlan family I feel bad about. It's the poor fucks whose Black Brigade ancestors decided their political commitment at a cellular level generations before they were even born. Call me old-fashioned, but I like to make my own decisions about whom I murder and why." I held back a moment, then drove the blade home anyway. "And so, from what I've read, did Quellcrist Falconer." A kilometer of whitecapped blue whipped past beneath us. Barely audible, the grav drive in the left-hand pod murmured to itself. "What's that supposed to mean?" she whispered at last. I shrugged. "You triggered this thing." "It was a Quellist weapon." I thought I could hear an edge of desperation in her words. "It was all I had to work with. You think it's worse than a conscript army? Worse than the clone-enhanced combat sleeves the Protectorate decants its soldiers into so they'll kill without empathy or regret?" "No. But I think as a concept it contradicts the words /I will not ask you to fight, to live, or to die for a cause you have not first understood and embraced of your own free will./"

Woken Furies, by Richard K. Morgan

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