{"id":1509,"date":"2025-05-22T16:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:58:41","slug":"empires-eugenics-budget-is-infinite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/empires-eugenics-budget-is-infinite\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire&#8217;s Eugenics Budget is Infinite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is an infinite budget for eugenics for Empire, which includes war, human experimentation, control of bodies, genocide, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigenity, policing, surveillance, prisons, militarism and controlling and limiting movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, Empire will always steal and limit those who fall outside its determined eugenics pool. These are the very people that have always been attacked by oppressors. People of the Global Majority, trans people poor people disabled people, people whose very existence challenges and defies Empire&#8217;s entire foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Empire and those who cater to it, have been trying to create a world in their image. One where only the people they see fit will survive and thrive, <strong>at the expense of everyone else<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why oppressors are terrified of interdependent community, and why diversity and difference are direct challenges to them. <strong>Our very existence defies them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As budgets for health care, education, and food access are cut, oppressors will always determine there is not enough for everyone because <strong>they do not want self-determination by anyone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we will not let them create the world in their image. We will not let them tell us who we are. <strong>We will not let their limits limit us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an infinite budget for eugenics for Empire, which includes war, human experimentation, control of bodies, genocide, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigenity, policing, surveillance, prisons, militarism and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/empires-eugenics-budget-is-infinite\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Empire&#8217;s Eugenics Budget is Infinite<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":null,"activitypub_content_visibility":"quiet_public","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[190],"tags":[324],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-empire","tag-eugenics","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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