This weekend members of the Anti-vaccination movement/cult proved once again just what type of people they really are, and just what lows they are willing to go to inorder to spread their propaganda.
And by "people" I mean scum bags.
This whole thing that I'm p*ssed off about starts off with something that has nothing to do with either vaccines or autism, but actually has to do with the kidnapping of over 200 school girls in Nigeria by the terrorist group Boko Haram, who are threatening to sell the girls off as "wives" (i.e. sex slaves).
So far there has been a huge outpouring of both condemnation against the terrorists who kidnapped these girls, and support for bringing the girls home.
Infact First Lady Michelle Obama recently posted this picture on the internet to show her support for these girls and their hopefull rescue, and also encouraging the terrorists to let them go:
Unfortunately there are some people who don't care how serious or sensitive a situation such as this is and will take a photo like this and digitally manipulated a photo such as this inorder to promote their own propaganda...
That is exactly what happened with this photo:
Now I could get into how BS the information on this poorly photoshopped picture is, or how insulting it is to autistic people, but I just want to focus on the group that decided it was okay to manipulate a photo of the First Lady showing her support to bring home a group of kidnapped school girls who may very well be sold as sex slaves if they aren't found and freed!
The group who manipulated the photo is call The Canary Party, a Anti-Vaccination group that barely pretends to be a political group.
Besides just publishing lies about and conspiracy theories about vaccines, they also publish anti-GMO propaganda, pro-alternative medicine propaganda, insist that autism is an epidemic, makes autism look like it's something that is life destroying and that autistic people can't function in society, both of which are horrible lies, and declares that anyone that says they are wrong to be bullies.
All of that is bad enough by itself, but then they go and manipulate a photo of the First Lady showing support for those many kidnapped school girls inorder to promote their lies while completely and totally disregarding the seriousness of the kidnappings, as well as being completely insensitive to what these girls are going through.
I guess there really is no low for the Anti-Vaccination movement. But on the bright side it does appear that this "stunt" has backfired on them, as they are receiving a bunch of negative comments on their Facebook page.
One last thing: I really hope these girls are freed and freed soon, and that the scum bags who kidnapped them are left in such a way that they can never do something like this ever again.
Not once in your blog do you explain why Autism is on dramatic rise in the U.S and world population. Autism was never, ever, this common. And, no, it's not because we're able to diagnose earlier and better.
ReplyDeleteI do not think that vaccinations are the cause - I think EMR is the most likely culprit.
The issue addressed isn't so much the nature and cause of Autism itself, it's more the issue of a collective of self-righteous bigots who seem to think that it's all good and well to manipulate media by an influential figure just to get their point across, all without consideration or consent. It is pretty damn low.
DeleteAs for the cause, EMR seems to be of larger concern. Several studies have already concluded that there is no notable evidence to support the theory that vaccinations are a cause of Autism.
Actually autism really isn't on the rise, it's just that doctors and people that work with children are better able to see if a child showing signs of autism .
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