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Absolutely not. No people are feeble minded. In this case, Carrie was displayed as such without testing as such. That doesn’t mean anyone who tested as such deserved to be treated like this, because again, absolutely no one is feeble minded. All IQ tests are bullshit to begin with, which if you read my entire eugenics series, I’m very clear about.

No one is feeble minded. No one deserves to be imprisoned. Even today we have people being imprisoned for their mental capabilities, which I cover in a recent post on incarceration.

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Hello! Love what you do with Let's Not Date. But just wanted to push back a little on the framing of this story. You state a few times how Carrie and her family were not 'feebleminded' or 'mentally deficient' as a way to highlight how they were poorly treated. But if they were those things - as in, people who we would now say have learning disabilities - it would be just as bad for them to be forcibly sterelised! Eugenics is rooted in ableism, and by telling stories about the people who it was 'ridiculous' to be treated so poorly implies that there were people who it was less 'ridiculous' to be treated that way.

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Absolutely not. No people are feeble minded. In this case, Carrie was displayed as such without testing as such. That doesn’t mean anyone who tested as such deserved to be treated like this, because again, absolutely no one is feeble minded. All IQ tests are bullshit to begin with, which if you read my entire eugenics series, I’m very clear about.

No one is feeble minded. No one deserves to be imprisoned. Even today we have people being imprisoned for their mental capabilities, which I cover in a recent post on incarceration.

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Hi, thanks for responding. I haven't been able to read all of your posts yet, so was just responding to this one, where ableism isn't mentioned at all in the description, and there isn't a content warning for ableist slurs or eugenics. I just wanted to raise that the without that framing it can be misinterpreted in the way I did.

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