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Fetterman famously had a major change in political ideology following a brain injury.
Numerous studies have shown that brain injuries are associated with more conservative beliefs, though I don’t have the time to dig all of them up right now.
What would that be exactly?
Different person here. People with brain damage, along with other mental and physical disabilities, were the first group killed by the OG Nazis. Once they realized they could get away with that, they moved on to other marginalized groups.
Many people suffer brain damage WITHOUT becoming Conservatives. Or becoming assholes. Fetterman has changed party views, but he was always an asshole.
It sounds like you’re missing the difference between low and high functioning _____. People with high-functioning autism, for example, deal with a lot of struggles that everyone handwaves away because they’re mostly able to, like, get to work on time. The Nazis would have walked right past them so long as their views aligned; they wanted the people who were visibly and undeniably brain damaged because because it’s all about appearances with facists. Plus it was the first half of the 1900s, they weren’t exactly experts at that shit.
I expect Neofascism to weaponize autism in a particular way: "Ah...you had a vaccination as a child. To the gulag with you, autistic."
By being an invisible and highly variable condition, the brand of autism can be pressed upon anyone the Regime wishes to remove from society. Inconvenient politician? Autism. That pretty girl who spurned you? Threaten them with autism, until they surrender their cherry. Then brand them anyway.
Bluntly, I am very much expecting horrible things to come.
It sounds like you're missing the point that the "dark path" of extermination starts with casting people with brain damage as the enemy. Dehumanization is a Nazi tactic even when used by people who consider themselves antifascist.
Vote against Fetterman by all means, work to promote progressive goals. Research what kids of brain decay cause withering of empathy and how to restore it. But don't dismiss those who've suffered brain damage as a whole. And maybe learn to recognize assholes even when they seem to be on your side,like Fetterman before the damage stripped away his progressive veneer.
I don’t see us doing that, though, so I’m not sure how to agree with you while also explaining that you’re agreeing with our point and maybe just aren’t seeing that.