I know some folks are like, "I'm autistic and I CAN do those thing" and that's great, but that's actually not why this statement is horrifying. It's horrifying because he's saying anyone who isn't "normal" and isn't "productive" don't have valuable lives, so should they really be alive? - ThreadSky

kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social • 2 days ago

I know some folks are like, "I'm autistic and I CAN do those thing" and that's great, but that's actually not why this statement is horrifying.

It's horrifying because he's saying anyone who isn't "normal" and isn't "productive" don't have valuable lives, so should they really be alive?

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The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.

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alexthegirl.bsky.social•2 days ago

You nailed it with this thread. Judging a life worth living on the factor of holding a job in the first place ignores so much.

stargazerkg.bsky.social•1 day ago

The day this decrepit zombie dies, I'm going to celebrate.

allicrombie.bsky.social•1 day ago

As a person with a visible disability, we are not surprised. Trump has said the same.

oldrottenlady.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is some wild abelist rhetoric from a man that cannot utter a sentence without gasping for air. Like, what?

danwhitehead.net•1 day ago

Not hard to see where he got these fucked up ideas. His aunt was lobotomised and institutionalised for life so her disability wouldn't negatively impact the dynasty's political ambitions.

kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social•2 days ago

He's saying disabled people, and he's using Autism as a boogie man because it can show up in ways that many people deem "not a real life." But he's not going to limit this to autistic folks who need assistance.

No, either you can fake being normal, or you're a "useless eater". That's what he thinks

kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you make six figures, you're not autistic to RFK Jr. He doesn't care. He's not talking about you.

He's talking about people who may be nonverbal, who may have physical deformities, who may struggle with doing things on their own.

kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social•2 days ago

RFK Jr is talking about the autistic and other disabled people who require wheelchairs, who may wear adult diapers, who may vocalize in ways that make "normal" people uncomfortable, who may never reach what RFK considers average intelligence.

kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social•2 days ago

ANd RFK Jr is saying these people, who have NOTHING to be ashamed of, who are HUMAN BEINGS who DESERVE the dignitiy of being treated as a human being, don't actually have a life.

ANd y'know what? Even if it's not what he considers a life or you consider a life, these people are still people.

kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social•2 days ago

People who deserve a good quality of living. People who deserve to be treated by healthcare staff with dignity, not as a paycheck, but as a person who's being helped. People who deserve the same chance to live and laugh and smile as everyone else on this planet.

kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's not what RFK thinks, and we're already deporting people to concentration camps. I'd hate to think what suggestions the guy from the same family that lobotomized a young woman because she was a normal young woman has.

vampfiend3.bsky.social•2 days ago

I can't fake being normal so I'm screwed

nyctemere.bsky.social•1 day ago

Autism Speaks surely loves that guy.

drspider666.bsky.social•2 days ago

I care about neurodiversity movement not for autistic superpowers, but for asserting the human rights of people whose humanity is always in danger of being denied.

He throws in shit about poetry & baseball as if the bottom line isn't 'but how can this unit generate $ for me?'

aethien.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is full on eugenics, no doubt about it.

vampfiend3.bsky.social•2 days ago

By his logic then we should have ssi and freeze Healthcare since it's government's fault

macbish.bsky.social•1 day ago

I can’t remember where I heard this but it sums things up perfectly ,”When you’ve met one autistic person you’ve met one autistic person”. These comments by RFK Jnr and his followers makes me sick.

cyberrb25.bsky.social•1 day ago

AND if the state is the one who decides who is normal, they can decide that you are not and should not be entitled to life or to whatever rights the Constitution gives, like due process.

vulcant1369.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds familiar https://theconversation.com/disabled-people-were-holocaust-victims-too-they-were-excluded-from-german-society-and-murdered-by-nazi-programs-198298

dinosdonteathorses.bsky.social•1 day ago

Exactly!

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