Dawkins sparks outrage for saying Down Syndrome babies should be aborted

[Losty]

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I think you're adding a lot that was never said, into your summation of Dawkins' opinion. But you needn't: the man himself expanded on what he was saying in a blog post later on, and in fact addressed the fact that what you think he was saying... wasn't, in his summarized list of the kinds of people who got offended at his tweet:

I'm not adding a thing to what he said, I'm simply taking it apart. His response it not applicable to me - I don't know anyone with Down's, never have, and nor is my family or any of my current close friends affected directly by the issue of disability and disability care.

I didn't make an emotional argument, I mad a logical one, based on the very principles that my society is founded on. The values of a fair go for everyone and the others that I already laid out, and I'd rather not repeat myself at this time.

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Note, and this is where I will repeat myself, the point I was making is that his comments are not constructive to fixing the social and economic problems surrounding the issue of disability. It shouldn't cost parents any more, and it shouldn't mean that the mentally disabled cannot fully participate to their potential and live a happy a fulfilled life. If these problems didn't exist in the first place then there would no room in the first place to suggest that aborting all foetus's that may be disabled is such a great idea. Eg. "abort all the jiggaboos because then they they don't have to face the racial discrimination later in life".

As for your comment: fuck you. I had to hear racial slurs nearly every fucking day for 4 years, it affected my stress levels and so until I become a racist and used those terms every single day in a context where I am being racially hateful you don't get to tell me, ever, not to use them. I have to be able to express them to release the years of the built up rage and stress. I know it's not nice, but that's my point and that's the context that I do it in.

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No one told you not to use them, but your use of them is childish and annoying. I lived in South Georgia for 7 years hearing racial slurs was a daily part of my life. As well as witnessing first hand some pretty sick things done by racist horrible people. (Like the beating of a black kid for dating a white girl at my highschool. He was in the icu for a week). It's tragic and sad and it needs to be changed. So I will return your fuck you. Fuck you for joining the ignorant in their racism (regardless of whether or not you're actually racist), and becoming a part of the problem instead of a part of the change.