• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    So the guy who wears blackface and encourages the poor to kill themselves was a good leader for Canada?

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      Wasn’t the blackface thing decades ago?

      Still problematic sure but extremely disingenuous to present it in the present tense as if it’s happening right now (unless there’s something I don’t know).

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        2 days ago

        True, the whole “Kill the poor and pretend its medicine.” thing though… that’s much worse.

        No really they made a whole commercial trying to glamorize it and everything.

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          Well it’s mostly that at least a certain group with disabilities has access to a way out when life is too harsh. It is to limit unneeded suffering. A respectful way to end one’s life should be available to everyone, but that is a hard pill to swallow for many neurotypical / religious people. So it gets limited to a certain group, and then they use that compromise as an argument…

          You don’t decide whether you are born, at least let us have more control over our own death. In a progression of our human civilization, this should count for everyone.

          Framing this in a bad way is exactly what some conservative politicians and media want.