“uwu but if there was a cure for autism nobody would force you to-

Bullshit. Yes the fuck they would.

Want to get hired? Oh, you have autism? Well, we can’t hire you unless you get cured.

Want to get paid? Oh, we’re legally allowed to pay you less because you’re autistic. We can pay you a reasonable amount when you get cured!

Need accommodations? Why don’t you just get cured instead?

You know, you wouldn’t need all this therapy and assistance if you just got cured. You should just get cured!

We don’t need special care programs for autism! There’s a cure available! Just get it!

This isn’t covered by your healthcare because autism is a pre-existing condition, sorry!

My child was autistic and we didn’t want him to be, so we cured him! He didn’t want or ask for it, but we did!

Look, autism can’t be cured. But if it could, that cure would would absolutely not be a choice. It would just be disguised as optional.

Look at the danger already for people of colour, disabled people, women, nonbinary people, transpeople, etc. if they are labelled noncompliant by medical or benefits services. Tell me not consenting to be ‘cured’ wouldn’t land you in it. Tell me that they wouldn’t make being ‘cured’ conditional for lighter sentencing in the court system, the way some courts still, in 2018, make sterilisation an ‘option’ for people charged with repeat offences. Tell me they wouldn’t exclude uncured autistic people from public housing, education and support services. Tell me again, and then go and look at history. See if you can convince yourself it won’t happen again, when we have Nazis marching in the streets and eugenicists running for election who openly call for murder of disabled people because they’re a drain on resources. Tell me that if there was a cure, it wouldn’t become a genocide.

Autism Speaks Accepts Support From Neo-Nazi Group

perladelsur2000:

emily84:

breakfastwithlucien:

(Link is via Do Not Link)

Autism Speaks is accepting support from Soldiers of Odin, a white supremacist vigilante group, and happily featuring their group portrait on their website asking for $ to fund their shitty autistic-abusing organisation. As A$ are flat-out eugenicists and the organisation’s leadership is in bed with Trump, I for one am very unfucking surprised that they’re chill with their money-making events being full of actual Nazis. So much for their new ‘progressive’ mission statement. Do not trust or support A$.

Here’s another article explaining this shit in detail.

Of course they would.

The Super Soldier and the German Psyche

actuallyclintbarton:

katiebakes641:

Hoo boy, we’re going deep down the rabbit hole with this one. I hope you’ll bear with me, as this ~~might be~~ will be a disturbing post. Here, have some shirtless!Seb as a precautionary measure:

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He’s laughing at me because I’m kind of a masochist. Anyway, check back with him if you need to.

I have German heritage on both sides of my family – my paternal great-great grandparents came over sometime in the early 20th century (don’t know much about them) and my maternal grandmother grew up in Nazi Germany. Plus I was a history major specializing in European history from 1871 to the Cold War. So…I know some things. You could chalk up all that to another reason this movie was like catnip to me. That said, it will take a bit to unpack all of this, so bear with me.

The idea of there being a superior race was pretty much unheard of before European imperialism and the Atlantic slave trade. Before then, Europeans didn’t have much cause to compare themselves to the rest of the world. But over the course of the 17th-19th centuries, that small part of the globe came to control the remaining 85% of the world. Suddenly, they were faced with millions upon millions of “savages,” and had to justify their superiority. Their right to subjugate the rest of humanity.

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Eugenics started [in America], Germans just ran with it.

THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS. This is something that we do NOT get taught (or that we didn’t get taught when I was taking community college history classes, let alone high school), and I know it’s just an aside, but THANK YOU.

Nazi Germany based all its initial forays into eugenics on programs in America that were active in over 20 states. That may not really be the topic of this post (which is a good one), but it is very very important to make sure people know.