‘Get on a plane’: Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women - Lemmy.World
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The Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality minister has said. In an attempt to reduce the population of the former Danish colony, at least 4,500 women and girls are believed to have undergone the medical procedure, usually without their consent or knowledge, at the hands of Danish doctors between 1966 and 1970 alone. The total number of those affected by the procedures, thought to have continued for decades, is understood to be far higher. Victims and their lawyers say generations of Inuit women were left traumatised and suffering reproductive complications, including infertility, as a result of the Danish state’s policy. Earlier this month, a group of 143 women sued the Danish state over the alleged violations, but they have yet to receive a response from the government, despite the Danish prime minister visiting Greenland – now an autonomous territory of Denmark – soon after.

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  • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Show fascist coping
    "Cracker is just as bad as the n-word, I don't care that the n-word was a tool of actual oppression used by slave owners, slave traders, colonizers and genociders to dehumanize poc while cracker never was, it offend me personally so they are the same!"

  • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Which goes to show how you undermine your own important message if you lace it with your own racist language.

    The only reason racism still exists is that we haven't asked the racists politely yet. If only we were not such snowflakes.

  • Hurvitz [they/them]
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    3 months ago

    what is it with incredibly racist JAQoffs and having Pug in their name. Is this like an epic bacon narwhal thing?

      • Hurvitz [they/them]
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        3 months ago

        I was thinking of people outside of lemmy entirely, but yah

        Honestly its possible I was just thinking of the youtuber who taught a pug to do a nazi salute

  • booty [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    Spain was a colony of some muslim caliphate for centuries and the ottomen once made it all the way to the gates of vienna.

    Holy shit the ottomen lmao

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    I remember some hidden camera from years ago, where people were coming and everyone tripped on the same floor tile standing up, regardless from which side they came.

    That thread is like that, and the tile is "american exceptionalism".