Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Tamsin6,
an article in The Press online
This one? Linking would help the rest of us - though as noted by Russell recently, Stuff do have a habit of changing their stories rather than posting new ones as facts emerge.
The Press is now saying
quite
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Ta for the update
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Joe Wylie,
the connection with people I knew was horrifying
I can imagine
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I have come across several such sources while doing my history of disability policy research
Excellent
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Joe Wylie,
common knowledge
You might be understating the difference your particular upbringing made.
it wasn't just the Nazis
I was looking forward to Gerard Smyth's promised doco about NZ's own eugenic history after his film about Templeton. Haven't heard anything for the past half-decade though. (Yes, that Gerard)
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Kate Hannah,
Like I say, seen nothing further at this stage. Larger long-standing problems with any media representations of disability, let alone the history.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Kate Hannah,
Haven't looked for much yet, but most people don't even realise the Nazis systematically exterminated disabled people as well.
Was spooky just reading Wikipedia and seeing the innocuous razed plot where the headquarters once stood.
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Kate Hannah,
researcher of post-Holocaust representations of genocide in a variety of "texts"
ooh, anything related to Aktion T4?
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to BenWilson,
Was that an edit?
Written in invisble ink the first time :)
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Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to BenWilson,
The limitations can be easily seen when older people advise younger ones about things like how easy it is to get a job if you want one.
Differing contexts add richness to inter-generational conversations, so long as they are acknowledged to exist.