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Go Woke, Go Broke (trigger warning)
May. 21st, 2024 01:50 pmA decent article written in March last year.
I do believe injustice exists everywhere in the world, as I can attest to as an autistic. However, regardless of demographic, I think no group has clean hands regarding being perpetrators of said injustices, even those that are allegedly "oppressed." I've had negative experiences online with other autistics, chiefly in the furry fandom; as I've seen as well, many nonheterosexuals and nonwhites can be just as big bigots as homophobic Christians and white supremacists.
She also makes an excellent point about selective reporting in the mainstream and social media (an issue in all news outlets, not just a select few), and this had frequently happened regardless of ideology during the time I used to pay attention to regular news, for instance, the media having a circus when Matthew Shepard was killed for being gay in 1998, but not giving a shit when gay men raped and killed Jesse Dirkhising in Arkansas the following year.
I'm fucking fine with Roe being overturned (and "Roe" herself since then changed her mind, another inconvenient fact the press loves to bury) since the issue is sensitive to me as the autistic son of an ableist, neurobigoted pro-choice mother who continues to mistreat me to this day (though I may be moving out soon). I fear that if she had prenatal screening for autism before I was born (1984), she would have exercised her "constitutional right" on me. I do believe there is a legal middle ground on the issue and think at least all forms of prenatal screening should be outlawed to end discrimination in the womb. Also, I believe opposing the legal anarchy of any industry is perfectly reasonable.
People on the far left and right need to stop fucking acting like everything's black and white and cooperate. Compromise is a sign of strength, never weakness.
I do believe injustice exists everywhere in the world, as I can attest to as an autistic. However, regardless of demographic, I think no group has clean hands regarding being perpetrators of said injustices, even those that are allegedly "oppressed." I've had negative experiences online with other autistics, chiefly in the furry fandom; as I've seen as well, many nonheterosexuals and nonwhites can be just as big bigots as homophobic Christians and white supremacists.
She also makes an excellent point about selective reporting in the mainstream and social media (an issue in all news outlets, not just a select few), and this had frequently happened regardless of ideology during the time I used to pay attention to regular news, for instance, the media having a circus when Matthew Shepard was killed for being gay in 1998, but not giving a shit when gay men raped and killed Jesse Dirkhising in Arkansas the following year.
I'm fucking fine with Roe being overturned (and "Roe" herself since then changed her mind, another inconvenient fact the press loves to bury) since the issue is sensitive to me as the autistic son of an ableist, neurobigoted pro-choice mother who continues to mistreat me to this day (though I may be moving out soon). I fear that if she had prenatal screening for autism before I was born (1984), she would have exercised her "constitutional right" on me. I do believe there is a legal middle ground on the issue and think at least all forms of prenatal screening should be outlawed to end discrimination in the womb. Also, I believe opposing the legal anarchy of any industry is perfectly reasonable.
People on the far left and right need to stop fucking acting like everything's black and white and cooperate. Compromise is a sign of strength, never weakness.
