when i saw the headline ‘golf digest helps free man from prison’ i thought it was gonna be, like
“he’s clearly in the background of this golf photo! that proves he wasn’t at the crime scene!!”
as opposed to, like
“this guy in prison sent us his cool golf fanart but we didn’t want to promo a serial killer, so we looked into his case and thought it looked pretty flimsy and probably racially motivated”
The guy in question (Valentino Dixon) had never even played golf, he was just inspired hearing about it to draw courses that would be cool.
From the first article linked above: The first course I ever drew was for warden
James Conway. He would often stop by my cell to ask how my appeal was
going and to see my drawings. Before he retired, the warden brought me a
photograph of the 12th hole at Augusta National and asked if I could
draw it for him.
I spent 15 hours on it.
The warden loved it, and it was gratifying to know my art would hang in
his house. Something about the grass and sky was rejuvenating. I’d been
getting bored with drawing animals and people and whatever I’d get out
of National Geographic. After 19 years in Attica (N.Y.) Correctional
Facility, the look of a golf hole spoke to me. It seemed peaceful. I
imagine playing it would be a lot like fishing.
Rape is the only crime on the books for which arguing that the temptation to commit it was too clear and obvious to resist is treated as a defence. For every other crime, we call that a confession.
I’ve gotten more angry asks about this post than I have actual reblogs.
imagine hearing “well if he didn’t want to be shot, he should have worn a bulletproof vest” on a trial
The thing is, though, it is said, in the case of racial minorities and vulnerable people. How often has a black person been shot just for driving/walking/ringing the cops for help/wearing a hoodie/playing in a park? How often do people say they should have behaved differently, as though their actions were a logical precursor to their murder?
How often do Jewish people, Sikhs and Muslims get blamed for being ‘too’ who they are in public? Especially women wearing a headscarf or men wearing a turban? How many are told, ‘well, what did you expect?’ when they try to report a hate crime?
How many queer people are blamed for their own murders and assaults simply for existing in public spaces? How many are told that if they just made an effort to be normal, they’d have been safe? How many were assaulted when they were actually passing, but were outed as queer and found themselves trapped and abused by people who felt angry at being ‘tricked’?
How many disabled people have been murdered just for not being normal? How many autistic children and adults are killed by their caregivers annually, or subjected to torturous therapies to try to cure them? How many interviews, articles, memoirs and documentaries justify this cruelty in the name of normalisation and blame the disabled person for the impact of their disability on their families?
People have always blamed victims. Yes, it happens to victims of rape and sexual assault, and always has done, and is disgustingly regularly reported as justification for what happened. But it happens to others too. Also, please remember that the rates of rape and sexual assault of people of colour, queer people and disabled people are far higher than the general population, and that it is far harder for these victims to access the justice system, compensation and health/support services.
I actually got out of bed just so I could go full rant about this on my computer, so y’all buckle up (thank you for giving me this opportunity lololol)
Okay, so this happened about a year, maybe a year and a half ago. I’m gonna go ahead and make this one public for the benefit of those that didn’t follow me back then, if that’s cool.
Let me preface this by saying that I had taken literally every one of the professor’s classes before then. Partly because they were the only anthropology style class the uni offered, and partly because halfway through the second class I realized that literally everything was the same, except the books, which we never used. Even the assignments were the same, and I had perfected a system of how to do those quickly, easily, and last-minute, lol. So it was pretty much the definition of an easy A, and the prof liked me bc I was nice, actually listened to her even though I’d heard it all before, and didn’t rat her ass out for not actually teaching what she was supposed to, lol.
I should’ve known right there.
So when there was an opportunity to take a Native Americans in North America class with her, I jumped on it. I needed the hours, I obviously knew a lot on the subject already, and it would be another easy a, if history was anything to go by.
It became one of the most frustrating classes I have ever taken.
As always, the class started the same as the others. We started out learning about vocab and models. NBD, we’d get to specifics eventually, right?
Now there are about 16 to 18 weeks in your average semester.
By week 6 we had yet to learn anything about Native history. She’d assigned some reading about the moundbuilder’s archeological sites, but nothing about the modern day. Maybe she was just taking it slow, I thought, though I was bothered by her only talking about Natives in the past tense. But she’d told me in the first class I’d taken with her (years ago by now) that she was enrolled Native, so I didn’t call it out immediately.
We get to week 8, halfway through the semester, she hadn’t covered anything. No mention of treaties, modern movements for civil rights, AIM (American Indian Movement), the illegal overthrow of Hawai’i, buffalo kill offs, smallpox blankets, Chicago museum’s bullshit, NAGPRA (a law protecting grave sites and demanding the return of remains to their Nation by museums and sites, if the Nation will accept them (sometimes they allow the remains to be housed by the museum bc they’re typically more secure there, but that’s very rare)) beyond how it affected archeologists, the different regions, the language families, ghost dance, the flooding of lands by companies illegally, human zoos, RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS, THE FUCKING TRAIL OF TEARS, NOTHING.
Like your 4th grade history segment, as racist as it probably was, probably was more informative than this bitch was being, okay? And I was getting mad. Y’all know me. Native activism is a huge part of my life, and has been for years. Students were being allowed to say really racist shit unchecked. The prof wasn’t teaching jack. Misinformation was being spread, even by the prof.
It felt like even in a class dedicated to us, we didn’t matter. Our history didn’t matter.
I was fed up.
Then, she pissed me the absolute fuck off. She proceeded to spend the rest of the class talking about South America.
Now, our Indigenous family below the equator absolutely deserve to be discussed. They have so many issues that really, really need to be boosted and respected. We do not raise their voices often enough. But this was a class specifically about North America, and her reasoning for making it otherwise was racist in so many ways.
First, she changed the curriculum outside of its scope because she was “MORE INTERESTED IN SOUTH AMERICA, AND WOULD HAVE TO DO RESEARCH TO TALK ABOUT” the issues I was publicly demanding to know when she would cover. As if her personal interest and ignorance were more important than our lives.
(side note, it turns out she was lying about being enrolled and Native. Her white supremacist brother (not even kidding) had said that a Cherokee woman chief in Minnesota or some shit had enrolled them. I asked her if she meant Wilma Mankiller, the first modern female Cherokee chief. She said no, it was someone else, and in the late nineties, after Wilma would’ve no longer been Chief. I publicly called her out, and even another student jumped in to help, because there was no other woman Chief then, and there was no recognized Nation that far North. Her white supremacist brother had lied bc he felt othered while working near the Din’e on a job site, bc they didn’t include his racist ass, lol. So she’d lied her way into being allowed to teach a class she didn’t even know or care about. So at this point, I was fucking done with her, lol)
She also was showing us old propaganda films, and literally every group she discussed was being painted as ignorant, warlike savages by her and the materials. She even defended a man that intentionally exposed Indigenous peoples with no immunity to certain diseases to said diseases ‘just to see what would happen.’ She recommended his books, including ‘Noble Savages’ to us. I shouldn’t have to explain why that’s racist, lmao.
All of this is to say that I was VERY fed up, she (and the class) was VERY racist, and she was going down.
Then her foolish self decided to assign a massive project where we were supposed to ‘teach the class’ about a Native subject (y i k e s, esp. since the class was full of non-Natives). Since I was Fed Up, I decided to skip the usual schooling on cultural appropriation to instead teach everyone (including her) about just a smattering of the important things she hadn’t even mentioned in passing. 🙂
What followed was a 33 page powerpoint.
Apologies for any inaccuracies, and blanket tw for slurs, racism, death, csa, torture, child abuse, etc etc etc
(I added all the regalia pics bc they made me happy and calmed me down, which I was gonna need. I set the presentation up as “Man, I sure had trouble deciding what to make my presentation about. Should I talk about X? Y? Z? This? That? This? And so on until I reached residential schools and Reconciliation as my discussion topic.)
I hope those gifs work. If not, they should be under my “Oka Crisis” tag, or “n i fn a history” and “n i fn a protests” tags. I also had decided early to use the Nations actual names where possible.
Oh look, a quick and easy way to make people realize THIS IS WHY YOU DON’T FUCKING REFER TO US AS SLURS, and here’s how to discuss the issue without being additionally harmful.
OH LOOK, SOURCES
#FreeLeonardPeltier
Getting progressively angrier at this point. The class is smart enough to stay silent.
#MMIW #NoMoreStolenSisters. Please bring them home. Whatever it takes.
Stayed on this slide juuust long enough to stare each person in class down.
Oh look, we’re finally hitting my actual topic. Again, shit’s about to get very heavy. Please read only if you can. I will not be glancing over these to check them rn, bc I can’t. I’m sharing just for y’all to see, and hopefully reblog to educate people.
I honestly wept as I worked on this part. I can’t read it again.
Calling it out.
AYUP. Canadians are so nice and their government isn’t problematic at all
There are survivors that are my age, and younger.
Not letting them forget that this isn’t just in the past. It still wounds us.
It still hurts. We’re still recovering.
I included resources for them, including the prof, to actually educate themselves, since our school sure as shit wasn’t going to do it.
A handful of my sources.
Anyways. I was done. So fucking done. She (the prof) still tried to guide the class back and pretend that it was acceptable that she hadn’t taught them anything. I didn’t let her. I reminded them all that the only reason that this was Canada focused was bc they’d just had the Truth and Reconciliation reports, whereas the US government hasn’t put any effort into assembling data on their atrocities. Go figure.
I noticed recently that I’ve passed what is, to me, a ridiculous number of followers, approximately ¾ of which have come since I got into Critical Role. I’m overwhelmed, and I love you all. Which is one of the reasons why I’m going to signal boost this.
I’ve recently heard that a fan who goes by the name Andy Thanfiction has gotten into CR fandom. If this is someone you’ve seen on Tumblr or Twitter, and his name is not familiar to you, I very, very, very highly encourage you to read at least one of the links below.
I’ve been in online fandom for more than 20 years, and while I was never in contact with Andy, I watched both the LOTR and HP messes go down in real time. I’m a person who generally doesn’t do public callouts for fannish reasons – I can count the number of people I’d make a post like this about on one hand, and still have fingers left over. But we have a lot of younger fans in CR fandom, both in actual age and in terms of people who weren’t around for Andy’s greatest hits. So if you don’t already know him, please read about him, and be careful.
I do, in fact, know this man. I have for several years now. I have not deleted the information above, because everybody does have a right to be cautious. I can’t try and make your perception of a person for you.
But it is very upsetting to watch a fandom that has been so active and uplifting about battling mental illness hop right on the same train as the other communities who i have watched shut him out.
Andy has admitted everything he’s done. He has apologized. Not the bullshit kind of apology where he blames it on things being his control, or even his severe mental illness, but the kind where he accepts that he hurt people, is genuinely sorry, then as he changes his behavior away from what he did he /steps back from those people/ he hurt, because he knows they have a right to be hurt, and even as they continue lashing out he accepts it, doesn’t argue it anymore, because he honestly just wants to move on.
And I have watched him try to move on. I have watched him /continuously/ try to do better, and every time his past Big Fuckup is brought back up, it blows way the fuck up, and instead of railing against it he grits his teeth and steps willfully back from the something new that he had hoped he might be able to find a place in now that he’s got the mental stability to enjoy it as just a regular fan.
I have no right to speak for him, nor does anyone have the right to know how particular medical and psychological treatment program, nor which medications he’s talking Why would you ask that of /anyone,/ demand that they prove exactly how they’re “fit” to be part of society, ask them to reveal information that by all right should be kept between them and their doctor?
But I can say that he’s doing /everything/ we ask people who have hurt others in their mental illness to do. I can say that I have seen progress even just from where he was when we met four years to the man I know today. I can say that I am steadily watching him grow and learn and change and become a person who is learning that it’s /okay/ to proud himself and his admittedly incredible talent in spite of how badly his psychosis fucked both himself and many others over before.
I am by no means trying to invalidate the pain of the people who got hurt. They have every right to be upset, I understand that the impression he left them with is going to be with them forever. When I was younger and foolish I would argue with them about that, but I know better now.
I’m only saying that I hope at it’s core, this fandom doesn’t prove to have a double-standard in the way it treats mental illness. That it doesn’t prove to be one of those groups that talks a big game about providing support to overcome and change and battle mental illness, until said mental illness is too scary or presents in a way that you don’t like.
It’s hard. I know. There are some scary afflictions out there that make it difficult to grasp or understand people. But when we say that people are not defined by their mental illness, when we encourage people to fight it and change and get /better,/ we CAN NOT just apply that to the “easy ones.”
So in the end, all I’m asking is that you treat my friend – who had struggled and overcome and is /still/ fighting an uphill battle – with the same level of respect and trust you would address any stranger you’ve met so far who likes the same show you do. He’s excitable, he’s fascinated, and he wants to enjoy this Cool New Thing My Friend showed me.
I’m tired of watching him get shunted out of places where he belongs. I understand the fear though. Mental illness, especially those that affect others /is/ frightening. I had just hoped that if there was any group that could accept his changing, break the stigma fan communities have held over severe mental illness, and honestly just /enjoy/ the amazing creative content this boy churns out like butter at a state fair, it would’ve be Critical Role.
Oh my god, shut the fuck up. He’s not amazing and I don’t care what “amends” he’s trying to make. How DARE you try to guilt trip people into accepting a dangerous predator into fandom by pulling the mental illness card?
You want to talk respect? How about respect for his victims? No creative output can ever be so amazing that people should willingly accept someone like him in fandom. And nobody is entitled to be accepted in fandom. Not him. Not you. Not me. Not anyone. If he really wanted to make amends, he would stay AWAY from fandom, not keep participating in it.
You should be ashamed of yourself for writing this ridiculous bullshit defense.
#oh jesus the idea of him being in a fandom where people often break off into #like #fucking TABLETOP GROUPS #SMALL ISOLATED GROUPS OF PEOPLE DEEP INTO THE STORY THEY’RE CREATING TOGETHER #is fucking horrifying #nope nope nope nope #side note: everything this person writes sounds exactly like Andy #he has a history of defending himself using followers as mouthpieces #this is suspicious as hell #and getting moreso the more they post
Reblogging these tags because they make a very good point.
Also, I was IN the Bit of Earth community when most of the VB stuff went down. I was friends with him. And I probably would’ve gotten fucked over a whole lot more as a trusting, impusive, miserable-at-home young person if I’d had money or the ability to travel anywhere on my own. And you know what I’ve noticed, following him over the years?
He has yet to actually change. His STORY changes a lot, he changes what mental illnesses he’s struggling with to fit whatever is most sympathetic given everything people know, but that’s changed WILDLY over the years, and a number of people who actually HAVE most of those mental illnesses have called him into question, not because they dislike him but because his portrayal of that mental illness is SO different from what it’s actually like to live with it.
He has not changed his modus operandi much in the last decade+, though, is the main thing – he gets into a fandom, he gathers a bunch of young and/or vulnerable fans around him who look up to him as a creator and often a mentor of sorts, and when criticized, they leap to his defense, often using suspiciously similar wording to what Andy himself has said. I’ve seen this happen OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.
So considering he doesn’t seem to have changed his actions, why in the WORLD should I believe he’s changed his motivations?
Sorry, but no – Andy Blake aka Thanfiction is an abuser and has been basically the leader of a cult of personality surrounding himself multiple times. I’ve known him, and I’ve known people like him, and I don’t trust him as far as i could throw him, and I will ALWAYS recommend people be extremely wary of him at the absolute minimum.
One of the people involved in this exchange alerted me to it a few minutes ago. This is absolutely correct: Andy’s history of abuse is well documented and his methods have changed very little over the years. If anything, they’ve become a little subtler and more refined with every iteration of his cult of personality–but only a little.
The excuses that Andy’s friend makes above are the very same ones that Andy used to post in his fauxpologies, and that his friends parroted on his behalf. He’s so very talented! So tragically mentally ill! So misunderstood! So noble in his suffering! If only you and your fandom were willing to give him a chance, you’d see what an incredible, selfless person he really is! And if you don’t, you’re just a bunch of narrow-minded hypocrites.
I’m not going to pick this person’s post apart in great detail because other people have already called them out (thank goodness), but I just want to point out a few classic Andy excuses and deflections:
“I have not deleted the information above, because everybody does have a right to be cautious.”
Since the advent of the Andy awareness tumblrs, Andy has been fond of telling people that he isn’t trying to hide anything and that they have the right to know about his history. At the same time, he’s tried to discredit much of the information available about his past, and to portray anyone spreading the word as a “bitter ex”, a “hater”, a “stalker”, or some kind of bigot.
“Andy has admitted everything he’s done. He has apologized.”
Andy has made exactly one apology to a specific person who said that she was fully satisfied with it. Other than that, his “apology” posts have been riddled with excuses and half-truths, and have focused on his own alleged suffering as much as, if not more than, his abusive actions. Nevertheless, when he was still posting on tumblr, he liked to link to his previous “apology” posts whenever people called him out.
“…
even as they continue lashing out he accepts it, doesn’t argue it anymore, because he honestly just wants to move on.”
This portrays the people Andy’s abused as being unable or unwilling to move on, as seething with hostility and needlessly continuing to rehash ancient history. He likes to say that his critics have no lives.
“…
every time his past Big Fuckup is brought back up, it blows way the fuck up, and instead of railing against it he grits his teeth and steps willfully back from the something new that he had hoped he might be able to find a place in now that he’s got the mental stability to enjoy it as just a regular fan.”
Here’s the thing: Andy’s abuse of other people has taken place in at least half a dozen fandoms over the course of nineteen years. Because of this, many of us have said that he needs to get the fuck out of fandom if he’s serious about changing and doing better. Even if we were to assume that he’s telling the truth about his mental illness, he still needs to stay out of fandom because he can’t seem to stop conflating himself with fictional characters. It’s not so long ago that he was talking about having “sense memories” of things that Bucky would have remembered from New York City in the ‘30s, that he ~couldn’t possibly have experienced~! Same shit, different day. He’s just more cautious about how he discusses these things now–he always leaves room for plausible deniability because he knows people are watching.
“I have no right to speak for him, nor does anyone have the right to know how particular medical and psychological treatment program, nor which medications he’s talking”
That warning post made no mention of wanting to know Andy’s diagnosis, meds, or anything else. It didn’t mention mental illness at all. But this is one of Andy’s favorite talking points, so of course it’s coming up again. Yes, some Andy awareness bloggers have written a lot about the diagnoses that Andy has claimed to have (they’ve changed quite a bit over the last few years) because they don’t actually make any sense based on his behavior and what he says his symptoms are/were. And none of his claimed diagnoses explains or in any way excuses the fact that he is a serial abuser and admitted rapist who continues to try to insert himself into fan communities consisting mostly of much younger women and girls. But no one has demanded that he display proof of any diagnosis on paper, or show the labels on his drugs, or name his doctors. No one’s ever asked to see his “paperwork”, but Andy likes to act as if it happens constantly.
I could go on, but I think that’s more than enough. People need to stop enabling this asshole.
And the cycle continues to repeat! I WISH HE WOULD ACTUALLY CHANGE because this is BORING REPETITIVE BULLSHIT. And yeah, I’ve moved on. Once again I adapt a quote from the Skeptical OB – Andy is like a bug on my windshield. Long ago squashed but still occasionally visible.
And no, he has not actually apologized to me. He set up a situation that allowed him to say “I’m sorry for everything,” but that does not an apology make. Trust me, I’ve made plenty of sincere apologies. I know the difference between a real one and a load of bullshit.
The hypocrisy in this fandom never ceases to amaze me. Every last one of you should be ashamed of yourselves. This man has overcome mental illness and only wishes to move forward. He did bad things. He got help. He got better. He’s paid his debt to society and you all need to leave the man alone. Let him get on with his life.
I will let Andy Blake get on with his life when he STOPS REPEATING THE SAME CYCLE OF ACTIONS AND ABUSE.
He has not yet done so, ergo I refuse to stop warning people about what he does. This has been going on for nearly TWO DECADES and it’s still happening in almost exactly the same way. The only thing he’s changed is the details of his sob story and the fandom he’s peddling it in.
What I think some people don’t realise is that for him, fandom isn’t escapism, it isn’t a joyous special interest that he’s entitled to engage in without censure. For him, each new fandom is a HUNTING GROUND. Each new person he meets is prey. For him, it isn’t about making friends. It’s about power, it’s about control, and it’s about manipulation. That’s what he enjoys. For you, you’re excited about the characters, the ships, the canon, the fic. For him, it’s about taking those things that you love and using them as a crowbar to insert himself into your life. He never values connections for the sake of themselves. They’re only about what he can get for himself from them, and he twists you round so much that you’ll empty your life of everything of value and give it to him just to bask in his favour, and won’t even realise how it happened. This is how people like him WORK. And to be honest, every new supporter that comes out of the woodwork to ‘defend’ him – there is a long line of literally hundreds of people that were saying exactly the same things as you not too long ago. The lucky ones got out with their worldview shifted, with a new-minted distrust. The others, well. I know one who forgoes fandoms althogether now. Others lost money, good friends, living situations, joy in something they used to love. Some got taken for all they were worth, got doxxed, got dogpiled. Some got assaulted. Three people wound up dead. I look at the people defending him, and to be honest, my hope is you get out alive.
saw atomic blonde by myself in a theatre of hets in the middle of the night and let me just say watching THE lesbian in the film get brutally murdered in one of the most violent ways i’ve ever seen onscreen really um what’s the word traumatized me for life
uhm boost
yeah uh i saw this movie just cos I heard it was gay and was really not expecting the ingenue lesbian get strangled by a man in her own bed while half-naked it was Unfun
Super glad for this post; I would not have dealt with that well.
friendly reminder not to support lindt this easter season, or apparently ever again, because they support autism speaks.
Wowwwwwwww
SIGH.
can someone please explain why autism speaks is so bad?
because they’re adamant that autism is a disease that can be “cured”. They don’t have a single autistic person on their board. Autism Speaks produces advertisements, small films, ect. about what a burden autistic people are to a society. They only spend about 4% of their money on “family services.” They create a stereotype that makes it hard for actual autistic people, like myself, be heard and recognized as actually autistic. I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder before they realized that I actually showed signs of Asperger’s. They don’t actually help us.
That’s the problem with Autism Speaks.
(tw for violence, ableism, abuse, murder, and death)
It goes deeper than not having any autistic board members. Many of the allistics running the organization promote the horrific notion that you’re better off dead than autistic, and their influence and “activism” only supports the ideology resulting in the continued murder of autistic children and adults by their parents and caregivers.
Former Autism Speaks board member Harry Slatkin, whose wife, Laura, continues to serve on the Board of Directors, stated in an interview with Town and Country while still a board member that sometimes he hoped their autistic son David would drown in the backyard pond rather than “suffer like this all his life.” Evidencing a pattern of similarly violent rhetoric, Autism Speaks is also responsible for the 2006 PSA “Autism Every Day“ in which their then Vice President states on camera that she considered putting her autistic daughter in the car and driving off a bridge, and that the only reason she refrained from doing so was because her other, non-autistic daughter would have been waiting for her at home—her autistic daughter was in the room as she made these statements. Furthermore, the producer of this PSA explicitly admitted that the film was intentionally staged to portray negative images of autistic people and their families.
Only four days following the release of “Autism Every Day,” pathologist Karen McCarron smothered her autistic daughter with a garbage bag. McCarron stated that she murdered Katie because her “autism had not been improving,” had thought about killing Katie, that made an earlier brief attempt at suffocation, wanted to cure Katie, thought killing Katie would make her “complete” in heaven, and wanted to live without autism and thus had to kill Katie. Investigators found that McCarron was obsessed with different treatments for Katie. (See People v. FRANK-McCARRON, 934 NE 2d 76 – Ill: Appellate Court, 3rd Dist. 2010.) Though it is not presently possible to draw a direct connection between Autism Speaks’ PSA and Katie’s murder, this crime and dozens like it only underscore how the kind of rhetoric that Autism Speaks favors only serves to recklessly endanger the lives of autistic people.
Autism Speaks also publicly supports the Judge Rotenberg Center, a group home for autistic and neurodivergent students that uses “treatments” like food and sleep deprivation and electric shock to try and train the residents into acting neurotypical. The center has changed states three times in an attempt to bypass regulation against abusive treatment, and their practices have resulted in the deaths of more than one student.
It’s not just an issue of Autism Speaks making it harder for us to get proper diagnoses and treatment. Autism Speaks is actively killing us.
Well shit.
I was eyeing up their strawberries and cream lindor the other day but this is more important than delicious chocolate.
you all need to know this. You really do. Please do not support Lindt or anything that supports autism speaks. Please.
Seriously Lindt makes my favourite chocolate ever?? but My boyfriend is my favourite person ever so looks like I’m gonna go find a better candy maker, one that doesn’t support murder.
ghirardelli > lindt, and not just because of the autism speaks thing.
I have autism and IM NOT JOKING THIS IS IMPORTANT
Exactly. The autism “research” that autism speaks does, reeks very heavily of eugenics.
Okay, but it’s not enough to just not buy this brand of chocolate. It has to be made known exactly what kind if org Autism Speaks is. The reason they spend so much on PR is so that the general public never funds out how reprehensible they are. No non-autistic person I speak to is ever aware of these things.
If you find out an company is partnered with Autism Speaks, contact them. Call, email, write letters. Offer alternative charities. It may not work every time, but the more people you tell, the fewer people will be likely to donate to them in the future.
this post is from 2014, anyone know if lindt still support autism speaks?
knitting in the dark 