Why does everything have to be a distraction
like there's some kind of deep planning going on in his mind temple where he's perfectly calculating everything he needs to do to get some his evil plan done, and one of those things is an autism month to distract people from his evil plan
Because I dont think he gives two shits about autism awareness, and has never spoken about it before.
the most boring part of being president is proclaiming that there's a holiday
Could be just White House staff pushing for it, and all they really needed from Trump was his signature.
This is probably most likely.
Most of them don't give two shits about things until they are told "hey, it would look good for you to declare a day for (x)."
With the stuff that Trump does or says on a regular basis, it's honestly hard to believe that he can actually do something his opposition (and probably his own party) would agree with. You can't really blame people for being cautious or even suspicious.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/04/01/presidential-proclamation-world-autism-awareness-day-2016
This happens every year for the past 11 years, guys. It's a United Nations initiative.
Why was this posted here then? Who cares.
A lot of Presidential Proclamations might as well be automatic messages pushed out on the current admins letterhead.
Obama is eating a mustard hamburger. It's clear indicators of his ultimate plan of creating a deep state fascist socialist shadow-government.
I asked if it could have been a distraction, and then retracted my point but thanks for calling me a fool.
I'm on mobile and didn't realize you were the one that made that comment. It sounds a lot meaner and direct in that context now and I apologise. I'll remove that bit.
""World""
but runs for the political party that refuses to fund and continually defunds the mental healthcare sector in his own nation.
Noice
Wow, really playing to his base with this one
Okay, now this post is just pure gold regardless of anything else said in here
Maybe it's just an issue close to his own heart.
Can we not please. This stuff isn't just a "joke" it actually is really fucking awful and harmful to people with the condition and fucks with their self worth and confidence a ton because of how autism is used as an epithet for "stupid". I should know because I am absolutely a victim of this and it has conditioned me to think I'm a miserable loser at everything.
Funnily enough, cyanide is often said to smell like almonds, so Satan may have very good reason to convince us that the burning sensation of our ATP dying is just a good old almond allergy.
This man found out Satans evil plan
Even the devil cant out smart him
As someone who was diagnosed with autism at a very young age and told by doctors that I'd never be able to drive, let alone function in society, what bothered me most wasn't the insults people used against me, it was the fact that nobody wanted to be friends with me to begin with. Policing our jokes will never fix that and we shouldn't restrict our language when there are more proactive things we can be doing to help people with autism.
I was made to work with other kids with autism in schooling because I was considered a success case of overcoming what was thought as 'severe' autism as a small child, and its the same story every time. People with autism have a lot thicker skin than you could ever realize, and what hurts them (or rather, us) the most was the fact that every is too busy pitying or bullying us to ever be our friends. I was the only friend to almost two dozen kids between middle and high school and it's fucking soul crushing to realize just how dependent they are on you for any social interaction at all.
As an adult, life is a constant struggle and I feel like I have no clue what I'm doing at any given moment, at work or on campus or elsewhere, but at least I want to be able to laugh at myself. I may not be able to speak for others with autism, but that's how I feel.
I find it difficult to take you seriously with that fucking disgusting profile background.
As an autist I feel insulted of this joke.
Agree with coup on this one, I have used autism as an insult before I admit but I def. due incorporate the word autism into my humor but that doesn't mean I treat people with autism any differently then I would if I didn't make jokes about autism.
While what you're doing isn't harmful, it normalizes and enables people that actually are doing harm. As it's used in jokes so frequently, they project their bigotry onto those people, assuming that they mean it. This is the case with essentially all bigoted humor- not to say that you shouldn't ever use it (I certainly do, although not frequently), but it's important to be aware that even if you aren't personally an asshole about it, that doesn't make it immediately non-harmful.
Comedy is also highly subjective and the identity of the speaker can be quite important.
Also, if comedy's literally never harmful, go tell Holocaust and Holocaust-denial jokes outside in the public street tomorrow and report back on how that goes.
Maybe for you but if I (as someone non jewish religiously or ethnically) went to a jewish populated area and made such a joke it's likely I'd be construed as having done so with intention to harm, mock or shit stir.
Audience (and yes, perhaps unfortunately) the deliverer and the audiences perception of the deliver are also important.
Going back to the original point, comedy can be harmful. It can marginalise people or groups, it can propogate bad stereotypes and (if studies are to be believed) encourage/enable actual discriminatory/bigoted behaviour.
"If the person on the gallows makes a grim joke, that's gallows humor.
If someone in the crowd makes a joke, that's part of the execution."
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