My day started out by reading that the org of autism "Warrior parents" that have been screaming about being silenced by those of us - that they decided to abuse - are...
... Approaching the government to cause trouble for @kemalahmedproud at a guest speaker gig.
Wow.
Again, the complete lack of self awareness is stunning.
If you're a member of a majority group that is harming a marginalized group, you don't get to throw tantrums about being *silenced* when that minority group speaks up about the abuse.
Period.
Then there's the wild hypocrisy of literally trying to get the government to step in and prevent a member of that marginalized group from appearing as a guest speaker at a school board...
... While you're screaming about being "silenced" by that marginalized group.
Again, going to bring up some economics and motive here:
ABA is a billion dollar industry, many of these people sit on boards that raise money to feed that industry.
... While autistics do not get paid to fight for our rights.
The bullying present with this action is WILD.
Finally, it's wild to hear about them approaching @Sflecce to ask him to prevent @kemalahmedproud - an @NDP candidate in the *current* election - from speaking.
Not a great look, ABA cultists!
I get that you hate autistics having autonomy, but getting in the way of an election in your quest to silence marginalized people...
Damn.
Sorry, just realized that I left a little context murky, for those outside of Canada.
To clarify, they're approaching our *Conservative* government to get a member of the NDP - the opposition party - banned from speaking.
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You know, I hope the politicians being targeted by Big ABA realize that what's happening to them is a demonstration of what they're doing to young kids.
A politician tweets or speaks in support of #ActuallyAutistic people, & that is a PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIOUR to be extinguished.
If the communication isn't what they want (support for their abuse), they seek to beat it - and the speaker - into submission.
Now imagine that you're a five year old, and that anger and hatred is being aimed at your "problematic behaviour"...
... but your "behaviour" is something like self-soothing by strumming your fingers, or flapping.
Or it actually is your speech, they just don't like what you're saying (echolalia, perhaps?).
Just saw that an ABA profiteer referred to anti-ABA autistics (ie: the vast majority of us) as "the antivaxxers of the autism world".
Imagine referring to a marginalized group as the "(their oppressors) of (their) world".
That's like saying "Jews are the Nazis of Judaism". Huh?
One day, I'm going to stop being surprised at how ridiculous ABA profiteers and Warrior parents are, but I'm sure there's something just around the corner that will top even this.
"Black people are the KKK of the POC world!".
Do they hear themselves? Absolutely ridiculous.
Up until the pandemic that affected *everyone*, autistics were the #1 target of antivaxxers, and we were constantly victimized by them, used as boogeyman in their agendas, etc.