Is my field of study being used to justify eugenics?

I hate that we still use BMI. I was maybe 10 years old when I learned that BMI as a reliable indicator of health was a total myth. My siblings and I would often play Wii Fit, where there was a weight measurement feature. We’d put in our height, age, sex and then they’d determine our health. Mine would always say “At risk of overweight”. I was 5 feet tall (I still am) and around 127 pounds. My mom would reassure me that it was mostly muscle and that I was perfectly healthy. But when I’d go to the doctor, they’d print my BMI on the reports and my status as “almost overweight”.

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Now I’m an Amputee G*d D*mn You

Our class discussion from the other day has me thinking. How do we talk about the US’s responsibility in producing disabilities through wars abroad (both in our own veterans and in residents of the countries that serve as the battlegrounds) without implying that disabled people are undesirable or useless?

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