Ruth Marcus, She-Wolf of the SS
Washington Post columnist goes full, ugly eugenics against disabled
To whatever extent she worships, Ruth Marcus seems to do so exclusively at the pagan feminist shrine of eugenic selfishness. Her recent, cheery endorsement of aborting Down Syndrome babies reeked of reptilian ghastliness, and revealed her apparent distaste for disabled people as a group.
("I would have aborted a fetus with Down Syndrome. Women need that right."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wouldve-aborted-a-fetus-with-down-syndrome-women-need-that-right/2018/03/09/3aaac364-23d6-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.f42ad9690267)
The broad brush horribleness advocated by Marcus was hailed by NBC reporter Ken Dilanian. "Courageous column," he tweeted, presumably not bothered that the larger world would know of his sympathy with icy vileness.
During the last presidential campaign, numerous anti-Trump commentators propagated the lie that the candidate had 'mocked a disabled reporter.' (He had effected the same 'flustered' imitation prior to the moment concerning arthrogrypotic reporter Serge Kovaleski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsaB3ynIZH4. But never mind facts. Wikipedia, recently announced as Youtube's 'conspiracy checker,' still offers the untrue version.)
Shrill vixen Marcus was among those partisans attacking the candidate's imaginary mocking, including in "Donald Trump has crossed an uncrossable line of bigotry," her December 8, 2015 Washington Post column.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-has-crossed-an-uncrossable-line-of-bigotry/2015/12/08/87485412-9dd1-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html?utm_term=.026e8329bee0)
That moment has passed, of course. And Marcus has no further use for pretended outrage over a contrived narrative, or for Kovaleski, personally. Considering her 'abort Down Syndrome babies' screed, Marcus may well believe Kovaleski, too, was 'imperfect' and warranted pre-cradle murder.
Underneath this particular episode is a fundamental, philosophical conflict between the abortion-rights eugenics impulse and the correct disability rights argument that physical impairments do not diminish human worth, and that people within that category deserve equal respect and dignity.
Not extermination.
Washington Post columnist goes full, ugly eugenics against disabled
To whatever extent she worships, Ruth Marcus seems to do so exclusively at the pagan feminist shrine of eugenic selfishness. Her recent, cheery endorsement of aborting Down Syndrome babies reeked of reptilian ghastliness, and revealed her apparent distaste for disabled people as a group.
("I would have aborted a fetus with Down Syndrome. Women need that right."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wouldve-aborted-a-fetus-with-down-syndrome-women-need-that-right/2018/03/09/3aaac364-23d6-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.f42ad9690267)
The broad brush horribleness advocated by Marcus was hailed by NBC reporter Ken Dilanian. "Courageous column," he tweeted, presumably not bothered that the larger world would know of his sympathy with icy vileness.
During the last presidential campaign, numerous anti-Trump commentators propagated the lie that the candidate had 'mocked a disabled reporter.' (He had effected the same 'flustered' imitation prior to the moment concerning arthrogrypotic reporter Serge Kovaleski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsaB3ynIZH4. But never mind facts. Wikipedia, recently announced as Youtube's 'conspiracy checker,' still offers the untrue version.)
Shrill vixen Marcus was among those partisans attacking the candidate's imaginary mocking, including in "Donald Trump has crossed an uncrossable line of bigotry," her December 8, 2015 Washington Post column.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-has-crossed-an-uncrossable-line-of-bigotry/2015/12/08/87485412-9dd1-11e5-8728-1af6af208198_story.html?utm_term=.026e8329bee0)
That moment has passed, of course. And Marcus has no further use for pretended outrage over a contrived narrative, or for Kovaleski, personally. Considering her 'abort Down Syndrome babies' screed, Marcus may well believe Kovaleski, too, was 'imperfect' and warranted pre-cradle murder.
Underneath this particular episode is a fundamental, philosophical conflict between the abortion-rights eugenics impulse and the correct disability rights argument that physical impairments do not diminish human worth, and that people within that category deserve equal respect and dignity.
Not extermination.
posted by DC Larson at
March 14, 2018
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