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Plenty of sus shit so far in this administration, but IMO this is the sussiest of them all.
It's quite literally nazi shit, and ultimately this has to be the logical end goal of the whole "vaccines cause autism" discourse, when you pair it with modern antivax bullshit; vaccines are bad for you and they cause autism, therefore autism must be a bad thing.
Add to that the whole recent thing about autistic people not paying taxes and you've got one hell of a stew. Things are bad and we can't provide for everyone, so people who we see as not being productive are therefore undesirable.
Except we can... we just don't.
While I don’t think the Trump admin is literally copying what Javier Milei is doing, they really do seem to be following along the same path just a year or two behind. And in Argentina, it seems like the austerity is falling hardest on the most vulnerable populations like the elderly.
But there are probably more autistic people who do pay taxes than those that don’t. Can we say the same for businesses?
And how many autistic people are itching and raring to start participating in society. But can’t because employers have such unrealistic high expectations?
The rich businessman screeching about how picky he is like he’s a toddler throwing a tantrum for dino nuggies is more a burden than any of the autistic people begging for their first job no one wants to hire them for.
We did our end of the bargain. Offered to contribute. They’re the ones telling us “no.”
the Big Autism lobby is out of control