• BeigeAgenda
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    10 hours ago

    Because the fascists needed a few scapegoats and they chose immigrants, trans, and autism.

    I think ADHD was skipped because it’s harder to say, and don’t fit into their fiery speeches.

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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      4 hours ago

      Autism got rolled in because the child abuser, disbarred doctor, scam artist, and fraudulent researcher Andrew Wakefield claimed vaccines caused autism and just about the entire Anglophone mainstream media spent years framing it as a dramatic story of a defiant doctor speaking out against the tyrannical scientific community. Often accompanied by videos of autistic children being overstimulated by the presence of a camera crew and being made to melt down for the camera the tragic horror of having to raise an autistic child.

      This massively boosted antivax conspiracist subculture to the point of it being a significant electoral demographic. Billionaires then paid grifters to align them with greater alt-right conspiracism culture so they would vote far-right. Autism naturally slots into the untermensch role, with vaccination being analogized to blood libel.

      So ADHD wasn’t skipped, fascists just didn’t have an ADHD-hating subculture to court.