‘Slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject Robert F Kennedy jnr’s national autism database in US - eviltoast

Autism researchers and advocates in the United States are pushing back against the creation of an autism database that is meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study.

https://archive.ph/R4kmB

  • This is eventually for all mental health diagnoses. He’s already floated the idea that people “addicted” to antidepressants will find new purpose on “wellness farms”. Out with migrant labor in with the new “mental” caste.

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      I use a low dose of antidepressants for a traumatic nerve injury. These things are used for more than mental health.

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      With the way Antisocial Personality Disorder is worded…

      If Nazis were in power and you said you’d be ok punching a Nazi to stop them from deporting a US citizen to a death camp…

      You just qualified for a diagnosis.

      Actually fought back? Even if it was just showing up to a protest?

      Also a diagnosis.

      And that’s just what would actually qualify as a diagnosis, they’d just lie about all types of shit.

      Like, they’re clearly not fans of due process, it’s completely plausible they’d have judges or even “law enforcement” rubber-stamping files and claiming it’s real.

      They can (and looks like will) throw any random label on anyone to justify their actions