Funny events in anti-woke world

[Agema]

It honestly makes me doubt that RFK knows what autism is

You should be more certain: RFK definitely doesn't know what autism is. He has a history of talking about autism which is full of errors and misinformation that indicate his understanding is full of unsafe assumptions and prejudices.

From the way he's talking about this project and his hiring of an anti-vaxx discredited scientists to take a major role running it, what RFK Jr. looks like doing is sending the NIH to find an answer he's already decided on. When the NIH cannot get the data to prove that answer, well...

...there is a high risk the NIH will simply write up a report to claim it has sort of found the answer RFK Jr. wanted, and/or that this answer will need to be investigated further therefore the US should waste huge sums of public money trying to find out.

 

[Schadrach]

Holy shit! JD Vance is the goddamn angel of death.

Is that a surprise? I mean Trump hits a shocking number of antichrist prophecies. Including checking off Rev. 13:3 during the last election.

It honestly makes me doubt that RFK knows what autism is

I think it's a failure of autism being redefined as a very broad spectrum in DSM-5, in addition to RFK being an idiot. Nowadays you have a lot of people on the autistic spectrum who in the past would have just been considered a little odd but not mentally ill. What he said fits a significant percentage of people that would be diagnosed as autistic today who still would have been diagnosed as autistic if it happened 40 years ago. A spectrum that includes people that are a bit odd but entirely functional at one end and profoundly mentally disabled people at the other ceases to be useful as a practical label in most contexts.

It would be like creating a "schizophrenia spectrum" where snake-handling and tongues-speaking churches are at one end and people who essentially live in an entirely different reality are on the other and then being upset when the word "schizophrenic" is used in a way that doesn't reflect the people who speak in tongues at church.

 

[Agema]

Is that a surprise? I mean Trump hits a shocking number of antichrist prophecies. Including checking off Rev. 13:3 during the last election.

I thought to myself "Is JD Vance the sort of man who would use his position and status to pressure a severely ill man into giving up 15 minutes of his time just so Vance could feel good about having the bragging rights of getting to meet the pope?" To which I concluded "Yeah, he probably is".