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The core element needed for anyone to adopt ABA for use on vulnerable autistic people is #ableism. The cult of ABA believes that ABA helps autistic children. To provide this 'help', it is important to strip the subject of their agency and to get them into self-preservation mode.
While most ABA practitioners no longer use slaps and electric shocks, all ABA regards the work of Rekers & Lovaas as part of the evidence base in support of ABA. Rekers went on to use behaviour modification against gay and trans people, while Lovaas continued with autistics.
Today there is an international movement to #BanConversionTherapy and #BanABA.
"He saw all his friends go off to war and fighting for #America, and he wasn’t #racist going in, but he started going in that direction and became very much of an Islamophobe."--Former white nationalist confirming @kathleen_belew's thesis. #twitterstorians theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"We don’t currently have any hate-crime laws that apply to online activity, but photoshopping someone’s face onto an Auschwitz prisoner on Twitter isn’t so different from spray-painting a swastika in a synagogue." Dude also confirmed that de-platforming works. #AntiFascism
The crazy thing about this parallel is that it shows how making private property sacrosanct is an impediment to fighting #fascism. It also exposes the contradiction of ideas being treated as intellectual property in some cases but free, open expressions of speech on the other.
