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In reply to the discussion: We failed her. Big time. Boston Children’s was experimenting on Justina Pelletier, [View all]pnwmom
(108,980 posts)was that someone apparently from the family responded to me, saying that I was wrong -- that they struggled for more than a year to get anyone to help them. So it wasn't just the fact that the Pelletiers had connected with right-wing people that kept progressives from getting involved. This person thought maybe liberals never tried to help because they are more likely to want government to control people's lives. I tried to respond but before I could answer, someone alerted and this person was kicked off after a single post. There was only that one sentence that could be seen as "attacking" progressives -- the opinion that liberals wanted government control -- out of a long, anguished post about how they couldn't get anyone to listen to them.
So we proved our need for control again, by cutting this person off without a discussion. I never got a chance to explain that most liberals do NOT want the government intruding unnecessarily into our lives. That's the meme of the right-wingers that the Pelletier's are surrounded by now -- the only people who have been willing to help them.
Someone else in the thread says s/he knows the family personally and that they're nice, normal people. It's too bad some alerter was so thin-skinned and some jury agreed.