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jasonderoga86Oh my God, this is adorable and powerful at the same time.
While RFK Jr. continues to defile the Department of Health and Human Services with conspiracy theories and deliberate scapegoat tactics against the autistic spectrum community (and also subjecting kids to die from measles since he can't figure out whether or not vaccines give people diseases [here's a hint: they don't]), bright spots of nascent innocence are pushing back. And since I assist people with intellectual and developmental disabilities at my awesome job -- working with people with cerebral palsy and autism, for example -- I'm always up for more proof that this is not a community to be scapegoated simply because it's not politically advantageous or because politicians of late have a stubborn refusal to do their jobs because it would looking away from their power-driven agendas.
So I came across this inspiring YouTube through a link from a corresponding article from Daily Kos which shows a New Jersey 4th grader who goes by "Teddy" delivering a masterfully written statement of rebuttal to RFK Jr's agenda of ignorance and stigmatization by calling for more education about autism and acceptance of people with disabilities rather than ostracization. Teddy poignantly ends his speech with the mission statement of his district, Princeton Public Schools.
And here's a good point: no child is born hating another person because they're different. And children in their early years don't harbor the animosity and violent urges that today's adults tend to. Don't ask me -- just look up some of the greatest Nelson Mandela quotes, and you'll see what I'm talking about. They are taught to conform and embrace toxic ideologies because of the culture and political climate of their own country. Kids often question their parents about why they support the idea of killing people in another country over an attack on this soil, and it burns their parents to have to explain, especially if they are politically attached. Kids also ask the same on the "other", and why they're supposed to loathe and wish death on them, and again, parents feel a small pang of guilt as they try to justify it because of politics and culture dynamics. Well, I can see it doesn't work, because one cannot make children into killing machines just to serve political affiliations. Maybe society needs to take a hint from today's children, revisit that point of innocence for themselves so we can all remember that hatred isn't ingrained in our genes -- it never was. Hatred is TAUGHT and LEARNED, as hateful people have hypocritically and futilely attempted to "prove" over and over about people who teach empathy.
YouTube video shows an autistic Jersey 4th grader strike down RFK's harmful autism stigma -- with class and pragmatism.
While RFK Jr. continues to defile the Department of Health and Human Services with conspiracy theories and deliberate scapegoat tactics against the autistic spectrum community (and also subjecting kids to die from measles since he can't figure out whether or not vaccines give people diseases [here's a hint: they don't]), bright spots of nascent innocence are pushing back. And since I assist people with intellectual and developmental disabilities at my awesome job -- working with people with cerebral palsy and autism, for example -- I'm always up for more proof that this is not a community to be scapegoated simply because it's not politically advantageous or because politicians of late have a stubborn refusal to do their jobs because it would looking away from their power-driven agendas.
So I came across this inspiring YouTube through a link from a corresponding article from Daily Kos which shows a New Jersey 4th grader who goes by "Teddy" delivering a masterfully written statement of rebuttal to RFK Jr's agenda of ignorance and stigmatization by calling for more education about autism and acceptance of people with disabilities rather than ostracization. Teddy poignantly ends his speech with the mission statement of his district, Princeton Public Schools.
And here's a good point: no child is born hating another person because they're different. And children in their early years don't harbor the animosity and violent urges that today's adults tend to. Don't ask me -- just look up some of the greatest Nelson Mandela quotes, and you'll see what I'm talking about. They are taught to conform and embrace toxic ideologies because of the culture and political climate of their own country. Kids often question their parents about why they support the idea of killing people in another country over an attack on this soil, and it burns their parents to have to explain, especially if they are politically attached. Kids also ask the same on the "other", and why they're supposed to loathe and wish death on them, and again, parents feel a small pang of guilt as they try to justify it because of politics and culture dynamics. Well, I can see it doesn't work, because one cannot make children into killing machines just to serve political affiliations. Maybe society needs to take a hint from today's children, revisit that point of innocence for themselves so we can all remember that hatred isn't ingrained in our genes -- it never was. Hatred is TAUGHT and LEARNED, as hateful people have hypocritically and futilely attempted to "prove" over and over about people who teach empathy.
YouTube video shows an autistic Jersey 4th grader strike down RFK's harmful autism stigma -- with class and pragmatism.
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Date: 2025-06-03 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-03 05:44 pm (UTC)This sadistic game is now what is considered REAL leadership in America, and those who know better are dubbed a "threat to society." No. The threat is the abdication and dereliction of duty that leads to a laziness spurred by selfish ambition and America's creation of its own societal collapse. Stupidity and ignorance reign in this clown circus of a regime, and talking heads are STILL lecturing about "leftists this" and "leftists that."
Well, I don't really give a shit WHAT they think anymore. I'M not the one profiting or gaining any kind of power from indulging in this horseshit style of crusading or anything; their guilt is not MY guilt. And these soulless husks aren't my responsibility. They wanna keep being man-babies in elected office while everyday CHILDREN can actually solve their disputes in a FAR better and more civilized way? Fine. I get it. You can bring a horse to the riverside, but you can't make it drink.
I'm focusing on how I can help my community and my society. If American politics has devolved to absolutes of one side telling the truth while the other doubles down with lies backed with domestic terrorism, then it's an aspect of America I no longer want any part of for the time being. I was already forced to vote in a heavily disadvantaged election last November before losing my best friend Steven, who worked as a poll worker during that same election, the following Christmas -- it was a deliberate betrayal of my trust and my faith that America had even a sliver of redemption in it. I won't sacrifice my sanity and wellbeing for a nation that refuses to acknowledge its role in its own collapse.