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15 Dec 2014, 7:22 pm

I think this article on nitpickers makes some realistic points:

http://thehathorlegacy.com/activism-101-the-nitpickers/



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19 Dec 2014, 11:36 am

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A good amount of Youtubers that do let's plays (those who play video games and post videos) would be as well. With the constant use of the "R" word, insults to those with special needs and a general negativity to those who are different.

Hey, as a Let's Player I take offense to that.


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22 Dec 2014, 1:45 pm

I believe the education system itself is probably the biggest opponent of the autistic community. It constantly propagates the image on an extroverted neurotypical person, and if you're an autistic person in middle and high school, then good luck. The kind of s**t that goes on in a typical school is living hell for an aspie. I can't imagine how many aspies have been screwed over by the education system. Worse, the "help" is more or less meant on integrating us into a system we hate.

Unlike Autism SpeaKKKs which mostly does hate speeches, the education system actually does bodily and psychological harm, and promotes the stigma even more directly with ghettoization.



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30 Dec 2014, 5:15 am

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Well, I'm going to be controversial here (start throwing rocks at me) but for me and throughout history the biggest enemy of autism has been religion, two faiths in particular, one being the results of the separation of the first. When they burned people at the stake and killed hundred of thousands people for witchcraft, being possessed, for not being normal or for not conforming to society, who do you think these people where? Autistic people or people with other disorders. Later on these same people where simply locked up, it's only at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century that prosecution toward "different people" stopped, what represents the time when countries started to go secular.
Sadly some religious groups are still living in the dark ages and still consider us has evil, mostly the baptist nuts. Her is an example of what they say about us (WARNING, what they say is very hard to take and read, especially if you have autism)
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=69903


I thought this must be a troll/joke website but there really are lots of people like this?! I am so angry I'd actually condone someone ruining their lives/bank accounts (Wish I had the tech knowledge!).

Or someone should get started raping them all http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthre ... post921903 . After all, the bible said an eye for an eye ;)


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30 Dec 2014, 11:54 am

The potential danger of the exacerbation of the us vs them ideology clearly explained.

In one word.

Scary.


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02 Jan 2015, 12:08 am

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SpirosD wrote:
Well, I'm going to be controversial here (start throwing rocks at me) but for me and throughout history the biggest enemy of autism has been religion, two faiths in particular, one being the results of the separation of the first. When they burned people at the stake and killed hundred of thousands people for witchcraft, being possessed, for not being normal or for not conforming to society, who do you think these people where? Autistic people or people with other disorders. Later on these same people where simply locked up, it's only at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century that prosecution toward "different people" stopped, what represents the time when countries started to go secular.
Sadly some religious groups are still living in the dark ages and still consider us has evil, mostly the baptist nuts. Her is an example of what they say about us (WARNING, what they say is very hard to take and read, especially if you have autism)
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=69903


The Landover Baptist Church is not real. It is a satirical website that mocks the Christian Right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landover_Baptist_Church http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_right.


It really bums me out that they put their fictional churches location as Iowa. I live in Iowa.



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19 Jan 2015, 4:40 pm

SpirosD wrote:
Well, I'm going to be controversial here (start throwing rocks at me) but for me and throughout history the biggest enemy of autism has been religion, two faiths in particular, one being the results of the separation of the first. When they burned people at the stake and killed hundred of thousands people for witchcraft, being possessed, for not being normal or for not conforming to society, who do you think these people where? Autistic people or people with other disorders. Later on these same people where simply locked up, it's only at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century that prosecution toward "different people" stopped, what represents the time when countries started to go secular.
Sadly some religious groups are still living in the dark ages and still consider us has evil, mostly the baptist nuts. Her is an example of what they say about us (WARNING, what they say is very hard to take and read, especially if you have autism)
http://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=69903


Ok the witch trials the whole not being normal means you get executed was NOT carried out with religious intent, but instead by politicians using a twisted version of the bible to justify their rule and to suppress any revolutions against them.


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24 Jan 2015, 12:19 am

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Ok the witch trials the whole not being normal means you get executed was NOT carried out with religious intent, but instead by politicians using a twisted version of the bible to justify their rule and to suppress any revolutions against them.


I think I had already pointed out it was mostly done by secular authorities. And that the writer of the Witches Hammer was considered a nut case by his immediate church superiors. Additionally it is highly unlikely that his co-author actually helped write the book, or was even aware of the project to write it to begin with, since from what I have read in the introduction from translation of the book I own he was not even interested in witches.

But suppressing revolts, not really. And the political leaders of that time had no trouble prosecuting protestants/catholics without having to call them witches at top of that. That does not mean that the religious authorities of the other side where not demonized (like spreading the story that Luther has the devil as a father), but I do not remember them being called witches.

No it was more part of the general heightened tension and unrest of the time leading to what can be called paranoia.



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24 Jan 2015, 4:06 pm

Why in hell's name are we still discussing Landover Baptist Church, a parody for heaven's sake? (No pun intended)