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RoanHorse: Dec 12, 2013

Julio Cruz posted:

Anyone else eagerly waiting for a deluge of "Obama said friend of the family, he's the real racist" posts? No, me neither

Did he actually say the word? Holy poo poo 2016 is going to be crazy

# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:12

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 06:11

Ghost of Reagan Past: Oct 7, 2003; rock and roll fun

RoanHorse posted:

Did he actually say the word? Holy poo poo 2016 is going to be crazy

I haven't heard it yet but here's what CNN quotes

quote:

"Racism, we are not cured of it. And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say friend of the family in public," Obama said in an interview for the podcast "WTF with Marc Maron."

"That's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination. Societies don't, overnight, completely erase everything that happened 200 to 300 years prior."

It's going to be the "you didn't build that" of 2016, yes.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:16

The Macaroni: Dec 20, 2002; ...it does nothing.

RoanHorse posted:

Did he actually say the word? Holy poo poo 2016 is going to be crazy

Washington Post says he did: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/22/obama-uses-the-n-word-in-discussion/?hpid=z

Edit: how did I miss the post right above me?

# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:27

Duck_King: Sep 5, 2003; leader.bmp

Crowder is already whining about it.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:29

toanoradian: May 31, 2011; The happiest waffligator

I'm more surprised Obama's in a podcast. Maybe once he finished his term* he could sit down with Carter plus Clinton and just chat then make that a podcast.

*assuming the dictator didn't get a third term

# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:40

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

I would listen to Prezcast the presidential podcast.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:45

Push El Burrito: May 9, 2006; Soiled Meat

toanoradian posted:

I'm more surprised Obama's in a podcast. Maybe once he finished his term* he could sit down with Carter plus Clinton and just chat then make that a podcast.

*assuming the dictator didn't get a third term

He also recorded it in Maron's garage which is funny.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 17:46

Coffee And Pie: Nov 4, 2010; "Blah-sum"?
More like "Blawesome"

Speaking of which, Imgur has gone from thinly veiled racism to straight-up racism:

A Racist posted:

Ok hear me out. In my city, we have an abundance of movie theaters to choose from. The one closest to my house is the only one with IMAX 3D experience. It is almost all black people that attend this specific theater because of the area it's in. Normally my wife and I will drive 30 to 45 minutes to a nicer theater to avoid the problems we've had there in the past. This past Friday we decided to see Jurassic World but wanted to see it in IMAX 3d. So we have reluctantly went to this theater hoping things would be better. It was not. I just do not understand the need to talk through the entire movie. What is the deal with this? Why do you feel entitled to shout things in every quiet moment when an actor/actress isn't speaking? I don't need a play by play of what's going on. And most definitely I do not need to hear, "That n**** straight up ate that bitch." Or the word "n****" or any form of it said every third word that comes out of your mouth. Do you also not see all of the warnings about no cell phones too? Why do you need to be on your cell phone checking Facebook during a movie? You can't even turn down the screen brightness or try and shield it from others around you? This is not just a one time thing or an instant outburst. I've been paying attention to this for years now. Even when we go out to the predominantly white theater, there will be a play by play black guy letting us know what just happened. Why? Why? Why do you do this? Do you think the rules and common courtesy do not apply to you? We've decided to not go back there any longer. It completely ruined the movie for us. I even know the managers at that theater and asked them why they don't do "show checks" for that type of behavior? They're simple reply is "That's their main customer in that area and they can't fight it any longer because of the race card being played every time they try to stop it." It's absurd and ridiculous. How is this even enjoyable for anyone of any color? This is long enough. There was even another incident that occurred before the movie start in but that's for a different day. TL/DR: Racist whitey upset that blacks talk/check phone during movies and ruins my precious movie going experience.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:02

Rick_Hunter: Jan 5, 2004; My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

Coffee And Pie posted:

Speaking of which, Imgur has gone from thinly veiled racism to straight-up racism:

I've never seen a more accurate TL;DR comment.

A racist posted:

TL/DR: Racist whitey upset that blacks talk/check phone during movies and ruins my precious movie going experience.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:19

Verisimilidude: Dec 20, 2006; Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges

Coffee And Pie posted:

Speaking of which, Imgur has gone from thinly veiled racism to straight-up racism:

Imgur has been straight up racist for a while now, but it flares up whenever something really racist happens. Right now it's not that bad though, partially because they're too busy circle jerking over the soft core porn they're now allowed to post and using it as a way to subtly make fun of feminists.

http://imgur.com/gallery/hi6fQ "Stop with the race mongering"

Apparently talking about a crime of racism and mentioning that racism exists is "race mongering."

There's something fundamentally flawed with the Imgur post rating system. If you downvote a post enough it gets classified as a "bad post" and automatically hidden from view. Very obviously racist/sexist behavior gets swept under the rug while more subtly racist/sexist behavior often gets upvoted to heaven. I would bet money that the people downvoting the obviously racist out of sight are the very same people upvoting subtly racist posts to the top of the page.

Verisimilidude fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Jun 22, 2015

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:21

musclecoder: Oct 23, 2006; I'm all about meeting girls. I'm all about meeting guys.

Obama narrated "Dreams of My Father" and it's said several times in there (along with gently caress, motherfucker, poo poo, etc).

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:31

Rick_Hunter: Jan 5, 2004; My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

musclecoder posted:

Obama narrated "Dreams of My Father" and it's said several times in there (along with gently caress, motherfucker, poo poo, etc).

Sir
Mr. Barack Obama
if you don't Resign we are going to put a spider in your dumpling and
play the Devil with you you god or mighty god dam sundde of a bith
go to hell and buss my rear end suck my prick and call my Bolics your
uncle Dick god dam a fool and goddam Barack Obama who would like
you goddam you excuse me for using such hard words with you but
you need it you are nothing but a goddam Black friend of the family

your &c
Mr. A. G. Frick

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:40

Faustian Bargain: Apr 12, 2014

I'd love a "mean tweets" special with Obama :allears:

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:43

Gin and Juche: Apr 3, 2008; The Highest Judge of Paradise
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Faustian Bargain posted:

I'd love a "mean tweets" special with Obama

This thread not good enough for you?

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:44

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
INTUITION; Toilet Rascal

Faustian Bargain posted:

I'd love a "mean tweets" special with Obama

Uhhh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDocnbkHjhI

Edit: he gets some softball ones and obviously they lay off the super racist ones, but still. Good watch.

seiferguy fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Jun 22, 2015

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:45

Thump!: Nov 25, 2007; Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!

Gravel Gravy posted:

This thread not good enough for you?

Hearing the words from the man himself would be truly special.

fake edit: Holy poo poo, what about "Barack Obama reads mean FReep posts"

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:47

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

seiferguy posted:

Uhhh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDocnbkHjhI

Edit: he gets some softball ones and obviously they lay off the super racist ones, but still. Good watch.

Obama would think the dad joke tweet is the funny one.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 18:50

Zemyla: Aug 6, 2008; I'll take her off your hands. Pleasure doing business with you!

Julio Cruz posted:

Anyone else eagerly waiting for a deluge of "Obama said friend of the family, he's the real racist" posts? No, me neither

Well, of course. Conservatives think "context" is just the thing they're always quoted out of.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 21:48

pathetic little tramp: Dec 12, 2005; by Hillary Clinton's assassins; Fallen Rib

Are people really shocked to hear him say the n word?

Here, this one is about fifteen years old:

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/CM/OBAMA_FRIES.mp3

probably :nws:

as your browser will likely autoplay it and it is indeed the president saying the n-word. Also the word bitch.

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/CM/OBAMA_BLAM.mp3

Also here is the president talking about gettin mad pussy

# ? Jun 22, 2015 21:59

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
INTUITION; Toilet Rascal

Not to distract from Obama saying the n-word chat, but let's move on to a great subject - VACCINES! Shared by my former HS classmate, "lionness mom", staunch pro-lifer and anti-vaxxer.

Your Child is Vaccine Injured:

quote:

If you wait until your child is born to think about vaccines, a vaccine injury is almost impossible to recognize. You are too tired and overwhelmed when it strikes. You are too immersed in the trees to see the forest. Too busy putting band-aids on symptoms to see the syndrome. You might be told that you have a sensitive, high-needs baby on your hands and his sensitivities manifest as colic, reflux, head-banging, food allergies, or contact rashes. You will be told that it is all normal, which is the truth, considering what passes for normal these days. Now I see these signs in other infants and I try to intervene. I try to warn the parents that these sensitivities mean so much more than their doctor tells them. I know that these parents are too down in it to see for themselves.

My son was born and like a lot of people, we put more thought into the paint in his bedroom than we had into vaccinations. I knew one person, nearly a decade ago, who didn�t vaccinate his children. He said, �We don�t put that crap into our kids.� He scared me. I thought he was a conspiracy theorist. I would never be like that guy.

We were presented with the Hepatitis B vaccine paperwork on our child�s third day of life, just before leaving the hospital. I have a Bachelor of Science in Biology but I didn�t know what Hep B was. None of the parenting books I�d read mentioned that I would be expected to make a decision I knew nothing about while I was high on painkillers. If you don�t already know, Hep B is a sexually transmitted blood borne disease that is also spread through using dirty needles. Children don�t catch Hep B at the playground, or from a sneeze, or from drinking water. The vaccine administered to a newborn baby will have long worn off by the time the child becomes sexually active. If a mother is Hep B positive and has been receiving prenatal care, she certainly knows her status prior to the baby arriving.

So why are hospitals vaccinating all of our newborns for Hepatitis B? Because they can. Because almost no one says �No.� It is as simple as that.

We all want to trust our doctors. No one wants to believe that the CDC and the AAP aren�t looking out for our best interests. No one wants to retroactively realize they were responsible for harming their babies. No one wants to debate their child�s pediatrician. No one wants to have this battle with their spouse.

We allowed the Hep B vaccine that day. We actually said, �It must be a really big deal or it wouldn�t come with all of this consent paperwork,� but allowed it anyway. We took our baby home that evening and spent the wee morning hours wishing we could put that hysterical child back into my body. We didn�t make a connection between the two events. We were already too down in it to see.

A week later we were still miserable. My husband would race home from work to help me. I would still be in my pajamas, covered in spit-up, leaking milk. Our baby would be crying. I would be crying. I wouldn�t have fed myself, brushed my teeth or folded any laundry. At two weeks old our son was diagnosed with �classic colic� and it did not let up for the next five months. It was the most severe case of colic anyone in our lives had ever seen. We ended up medicating him with an antispasmodic to save our marriage.

When he was nine weeks old I took my fussy baby in for his 2-month checkup and was attacked with paperwork. I wasn�t prepared for what the check-up would entail. �Sign here, sign here, sign here, he needs his vaccinations.� They were three injections and two orals that covered 7 diseases. �Is this safe? Why are there so many?� They don�t want you to ask questions. They don�t have any answers. There is a list of side-effects on the package inserts but they do not share it with you. You are rushed to hurry up.

They try to strip you of all maternal instinct when you are in your most vulnerable postpartum state.

My postpartum anxiety was sky-high. I was a shell of my former self and sleep-deprived. I had been screamed at for hours on end by this tortured baby. I was too down in it to think.

I asked to nurse him through the shots and was denied. I signed off on the vaccines. Within 20 minutes he fell into a deep unwakeable sleep. This colicky child of ours did not usually fall asleep out in the middle of commotion. He did not ordinarily pass out the moment I put him into the car. I called my husband to tell him that something was wrong. I put our son into his crib but even the transition did not wake him. I hovered over him as he slept for hours�something he�d never done before.

When he finally did wake, he screamed a high pitched scream I�d never heard before or since.

I remember running into his room and standing over him with the phone, letting the nurse at the doctor�s office listen. She insisted this hysteria was due to �pain from the injection site� and said I should give him more Tylenol. I didn�t believe her. The note they sent me home with said to call if he had a high-pitched scream so why were they saying it was normal?

He didn�t want to be held. He didn�t want me touching him. After 15 minutes of ear-splitting screams I nursed him back to sleep. I was sitting inches from him in his baby hammock chair when he woke the second time. I will never forget the way his arms stiffened up and shot out from his body with his piercing screams. His eyes scrunched tightly shut as he put every ounce of his energy into the terrifying sounds coming out of his teeny, tiny person. He wasn�t looking at me. He didn�t even know I was there. He went back to sleep and the scream stopped.

I stayed up all night doing the research I should have done 2 months before.

His scream was cry-encephalitis, also known as the DTaP scream. It is brain inflammation. It is literally an allergic reaction to vaccines in the brain. It is not uncommon. Had I taken him to the ER, it would have been documented with an EEG. Instead I was lied to by my pediatrician�s office until the event had passed.

That was the beginning of the end of vaccines for us.

Children do not have the requisite myelin sheath coating their nervous system pathways to withstand bombardment of viruses, aluminum, mercury, formaldehyde, MSG, and animal DNA. Damage to the nerves not covered by myelin sheath is autism. It is Asperger�s. It is epilepsy. It is asthma. It is well-documented and accepted by mainstream media that damage to the myelin sheath is physically and mentally debilitating in head injuries, yet the connection to autism remains unacknowledged.

Believe me, it made me sick to think about not vaccinating my child. I flip-flopped on my stance countless times. I told myself that at his next vaccinations we would go wait in the parking lot of the emergency room just in case. Then I told myself that was crazy talk�what kind of mother would subject her child to something that might send him to the emergency room? The day before his 4-month doctor appointment I finally got up the nerve to tell his doctor we were holding off on more vaccinations until he turned one. The doctor took the news so well that I felt silly for making myself sick over it.

Our baby now had eczema all of the time. At 4 months he was covered head to toe in a body rash from his first tablespoon of banana. We held off two more months for solid food. At 6 months old he developed a contact rash on his face from sweet potatoes. I pushed his doctor for answers, and a blood test came back positive for a peanut allergy.

My 6 month old breastfed baby had deadly peanut allergy. I didn�t see a connection. I was way too down in it by now.

At 12 months old his pediatrician who promised us that he �wasn�t a stickler� for the CDC vaccination schedule kicked us out of the practice for not resuming the shots. �It�s stressing me out not to vaccinate your child,� he said. I was holding my baby in my arms, trying to explain our fears, describing how horrible that terrifying day ten months prior had been. I told him how worried I was that we would end up in the ER this time. I was humiliated. He�d told his entire staff he was kicking us out that day. I left in tears. I thought of all of the things I�d wished I said to him for months to come.

We never did resume the vaccines. It took some time to feel confident in that decision. My supportive husband stood by me in our defiance even though neither of us knew what we were doing, and man we were scared.

At 13 months old our child broke out in hives at a birthday party from bites of a meatball that contained walnut. At 16 months we�d had enough and took him to an allergist for a $600 skin test. He was officially diagnosed with allergies to wheat, egg, melon, cat, ragweed, grass, cedar, tree nuts, and a deadly peanut allergy. We�ve since learned that he can�t have corn or potato and still can�t eat banana. My baby has a dozen allergies.

I had to learn how to feed him all over again. The natural process of these eliminations led to putting him on an organic Paleo/Primal diet, and my husband and I followed suit ourselves six months later.

My child was 16 months old when he was diagnosed with the slew of allergies and I didn�t make the connection that he was harmed by the vaccines even then. I was mystified. I asked the allergist what caused these problems in my child. His answer was, �He�s under-vaccinated. We need vaccines to challenge our immune systems in order to eat food without our bodies attacking it.�

Although I did not believe such an unfounded statement, I was too busy putting band-aids on symptoms to see the syndrome. It wasn�t until The Greater Good was released in October of 2011�nearly 2 years after the fateful vaccinations�that the anvil hit me on the head. It all made sense. The colic, the encephalitic scream, the rashes, the mast cell issues, the hyper-vigilant immune system.

There is now no doubt in our minds what path we were forcing our sensitive child to go down had we continued vaccinating. I know in my heart that he cannot handle vaccines and he would have autism today had we continued. All the signs were there. My second child who statistically shares half of his DNA is nothing like this. A needle has never pierced her skin. She can eat anything. She does not get contact rashes. She never had colic. She does not have eczema.

This is what really gets to me, though: The staunchest defenders of vaccines. The parents who will go toe-to-toe with me in a public forum saying what a bad parent I am for not vaccinating. And then what do I find out months later, years later, always in private?

Their child has food allergies. Their child has a learning disability. Their child is medicated for ADHD. Their child is crippled with asthma. Their child is on the spectrum.

How do they publicly proclaim, �We vaccinated on schedule and my child turned out just fine!� but in private they are dealing with these problems?

Welcome to the new normal. Your child isn�t fine. Your child is vaccine injured� just like mine.

woman thinks that because she gave her kid a Hep B vaccine (which she claims she's never heard of Hep B, what the hell), and now thinks it's the cause of all of her child's allergies, and never should have vaccinated for a disease that's only for "sexually active adults." Some quick research shows that 30% of Hep B cases are young kids from a variety of things.

I think most parents are unable to accept that having kids is a big genetic roll of the dice. Chances are your kid will be fine, but sometimes you'll have a kid that's going to have terrible allergies or some other genetic disease that just blows.

# ? Jun 22, 2015 23:11

VitalSigns: Sep 3, 2011

I got a degree in biology and somehow managed to never hear of Hepatitis. Trust me, don't trust your ignorant doctors.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 00:30

Trivia: Feb 8, 2006; I'm an obtuse man,
so I'll try to be oblique.

People's science illiteracy is pretty terrible. It spawns all sorts of bogus poo poo, whether it beclaims to the health benefits of a certain diet, food, or herbal remedy, down to stupid poo poo like anti-vaxx sentiment.

Not only is genetics one giant dice roll, but chemistry in general is monumentally complex. I'm not trained in the sciences, but I know enough to know I don't know anything, if that makes sense.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 00:44

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

Trivia posted:

People's science illiteracy is pretty terrible. It spawns all sorts of bogus poo poo, whether it beclaims to the health benefits of a certain diet, food, or herbal remedy, down to stupid poo poo like anti-vaxx sentiment.

Not only is genetics one giant dice roll, but chemistry in general is monumentally complex. I'm not trained in the sciences, but I know enough to know I don't know anything, if that makes sense.

No see they only tell you it's complex so you think that way and trust them. It's actually all just energies and using them to get rid of toxins but they can't sell you an herb you can grow in your back yard for $200 a pill now can they?

# ? Jun 23, 2015 01:19

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

I'll admit I glossed most of that article but it sounds like most of the symptoms that kid had fall under the label 'is baby.'

# ? Jun 23, 2015 01:22

De Nomolos: Jan 17, 2007; TV rots your brain like it's crack cocaine

pathetic little tramp posted:

Are people really shocked to hear him say the n word?

Here, this one is about fifteen years old:

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/CM/OBAMA_FRIES.mp3

probably as your browser will likely autoplay it and it is indeed the president saying the n-word. Also the word bitch.

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/CM/OBAMA_BLAM.mp3

Also here is the president talking about gettin mad pussy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P02Wr4g6EOA

# ? Jun 23, 2015 01:49

FuzzySkinner: May 23, 2012

pathetic little tramp posted:

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/CM/OBAMA_BLAM.mp3

Also here is the president talking about gettin mad pussy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlxkcewBEe0

Key and Peele is pretty incredible. They nailed this so good that I had no idea that even THAT part was real.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 01:53

Ghost of Reagan Past: Oct 7, 2003; rock and roll fun

FuzzySkinner posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlxkcewBEe0

Key and Peele is pretty incredible. They nailed this so good that I had no idea that even THAT part was real.

No impression of Obama is complete without a "let me be clear." :colbert:

# ? Jun 23, 2015 03:33

Clochette: Aug 12, 2013

seiferguy posted:

Not to distract from Obama saying the n-word chat, but let's move on to a great subject - VACCINES! Shared by my former HS classmate, "lionness mom", staunch pro-lifer and anti-vaxxer.

Your Child is Vaccine Injured:

woman thinks that because she gave her kid a Hep B vaccine (which she claims she's never heard of Hep B, what the hell), and now thinks it's the cause of all of her child's allergies, and never should have vaccinated for a disease that's only for "sexually active adults." Some quick research shows that 30% of Hep B cases are young kids from a variety of things.

I think most parents are unable to accept that having kids is a big genetic roll of the dice. Chances are your kid will be fine, but sometimes you'll have a kid that's going to have terrible allergies or some other genetic disease that just blows.

Autism runs in my family so I get a kick out of the "vaccines cause autism" crowd. Before autism started getting diagnosed correctly, you were either eccentric, gifted, a loner (Asperger's syndrome), or you were mentally retarded or maybe insane (low-functioning autism). Autism existed, they just didn't know what it was. My grandmother's aunt Elizabeth spent most of her life in an institution, and looking back my family thinks Liz was probably autistic, not retarded. I know several middle-aged adults who were only recently diagnosed with Asperger's.

I wonder what anti-vaxxers are going to do when their kids turn out to be autistic anyway.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 03:59

Dr. Arbitrary: Mar 15, 2006; Bleak Gremlin

Clochette posted:

I wonder what anti-vaxxers are going to do when their kids turn out to be autistic anyway.

I know one of these at work. She's still anti-vax.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 04:02

Lemma: Aug 18, 2010

I would lobby pretty hard for Obama to be on The Biggest Problem in the Universe.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 04:02

VideoTapir: Oct 18, 2005; He'll tire eventually.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

I know one of these at work. She's still anti-vax.

Herd immunity causes autism.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 04:41

ToxicSlurpee: Nov 5, 2003; -=SEND HELP=-; Pillbug

VideoTapir posted:

Herd immunity causes autism.

It's all the mercury in the air/the fish that is coming from big pharma and most certainly not coal power.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 05:00

Rick_Hunter: Jan 5, 2004; My guys are still fighting the hard fight!
(weapons, shields and drones are still online!)

One of my grade school friends that I still talk to who's in the Army posted a 'If you need welfare, you should get drug tested' pic, and I seriously want to loving brain the guy. :argh:

I went to the D&D help thread and posted their list of rebuttals but I'm sure he won't read it.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 05:46

hamster_style: Nov 24, 2004; neenjah!

Yep, totally the same thing :downs:

# ? Jun 23, 2015 06:09

RoanHorse: Dec 12, 2013

quote:

We ended up medicating him with an antispasmodic to save our marriage.

This is the poo poo that infuriates me when it comes to anti-vaxxers. They really don't care about the child as much as they do their marriage/duty to go God/progeny (in the homophobic/transphobic sense where they can't continue the family line in their eyes).

If you can't handle having a disabled child, you shouldn't have a child.
If you got in over your head, we unfortunately live in a society that doesn't provide adequate resources for the disabled, especially neurodivergent children who are still often categorized by a large portion of society as weirdoes that have to earn their right to exist in an allistic world.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 06:16

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
INTUITION; Toilet Rascal

RoanHorse posted:

This is the poo poo that infuriates me when it comes to anti-vaxxers. They really don't care about the child as much as they do their marriage/duty to go God/progeny (in the homophobic/transphobic sense where they can't continue the family line in their eyes).

If you can't handle having a disabled child, you shouldn't have a child.
If you got in over your head, we unfortunately live in a society that doesn't provide adequate resources for the disabled, especially neurodivergent children who are still often categorized by a large portion of society as weirdoes that have to earn their right to exist in an allistic world.

Honestly, it's okay to prioritize your spouse over your kids. In fact, many marriages with kids that fail is because they focus on the kid and not one another. The bigger issue is that she feels so sad to have to resort to life-saving (or enhancing) drugs for her kids because BIG PHARMA or something. Anti-vaxxers usually care about their kids, it's just that their mind is completely misguided on what caring for them entails.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 06:31

homerlaw: Sep 21, 2008; Plants are the best ergo Sylvari=Best

The worst thing about this Vaccines cause autism scare is that it treats autism like a fate worse than death. Like, they're saying that my life is a tragedy, what asses.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 06:32

DoctorWhat: Nov 18, 2011; A little privacy, please?

homerlaw posted:

Like, they're saying that my life is a tragedy, what asses.

Well, you are posting on SomethingAwful...

# ? Jun 23, 2015 10:00

Guavanaut: Nov 27, 2009; Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998; Toilet Rascal

hamster_style posted:

Yep, totally the same thing

If he wants to compare symbols to symbols, I think it would be pretty bad if South Carolina was flying an ISIS flag.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 12:41

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homerlaw posted:

The worst thing about this Vaccines cause autism scare is that it treats autism like a fate worse than death. Like, they're saying that my life is a tragedy, what asses.

The anti-vaxxers are all but saying they'd rather have their kid die than have autism.

# ? Jun 23, 2015 12:53

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