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thucythucy

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3. Institutions like Central Islip (the "Long Island institution" where Beasley was incarcerated)

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Oct 9, 2021, 08:37 AM

Oct 2021

were more about social control of women and girls, LGBTQ, people of color and other oppressed groups than they were about treatment. This includes especially people with disabilities, which the eugenics movement (which was predominant at the time) saw as a threat to racial genetic purity.

We're still suffering from the effects of this toxic belief system and the trauma it caused to millions.

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Institutions like Central Islip (the "Long Island institution" where Beasley was incarcerated) thucythucy Oct 2021 #3

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