erik111189@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhat are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?message-squaremessage-square333fedilinkarrow-up1379arrow-down129file-text
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minus-squareThunderWhiskers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoCan you elaborate on the “pro-eugenics mindset” at all?
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minus-squarehungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down3·1 year ago thought the label was worse than the disease Autism is not a disease.
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minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoI got my local grocery store to stop partnering with them for donations.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoThe first problematic thing it does is have the name Autism Speaks while not in any way providing a voice to autistic people.
minus-squareconciselyverbose@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·1 year agoI’m guessing they encourage screening for genetic markers of autism.
minus-squareIdealShrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·1 year agohow is this different from screening for any other illness?
minus-squareThunderWhiskers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThat was my confusion as well. Genetic screening isn’t worthy of condemnation but “pro-eugenics” has a pretty broad spectrum.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·1 year agoIt’s more like screening for left handedness than it is like screening for cerebral palsy.
minus-squareBye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAutistic people, as they define it, are not just differently abled. They started the foundation where that word didn’t include people with mild cases. If you could screen out non verbal, low functioning autism, that would be a good thing, just like screening out downs and whatnot.
Can you elaborate on the “pro-eugenics mindset” at all?
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Autism is not a disease.
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I got my local grocery store to stop partnering with them for donations.
The first problematic thing it does is have the name Autism Speaks while not in any way providing a voice to autistic people.
I’m guessing they encourage screening for genetic markers of autism.
how is this different from screening for any other illness?
That was my confusion as well. Genetic screening isn’t worthy of condemnation but “pro-eugenics” has a pretty broad spectrum.
It’s more like screening for left handedness than it is like screening for cerebral palsy.
Autistic people, as they define it, are not just differently abled. They started the foundation where that word didn’t include people with mild cases.
If you could screen out non verbal, low functioning autism, that would be a good thing, just like screening out downs and whatnot.