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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autism Speaks Student Organizations (Uh-oh.) |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 9:40 pm
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| I posted this on AspiesForFreedom a short while ago. My apologies to anyone who's seeing this again. So, Autism Speaks now has chapters in 36 universities across the United States. The list of schools that have AS chapters can be found at the following link: http://events.autismspeaks.org/site/c.nuL... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Nostalgia Critic got unfairly slammed by us! |
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Posted: 16 Jun 2011, 11:14 pm
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Asperger's Syndrome is Not Necessarily a Disorder |
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Posted: 29 Aug 2010, 11:29 am
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| First of all, Rosennoir, I think it's great that you have so quickly come to this realization. Many people, myself included, feel so emotionally jarred at first that it takes us a while to realize that having Asperger's isn't such a problem. As for the disorder/syndrome/difference/disability/disease... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: JJ'S Journey |
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Posted: 07 Jun 2010, 1:27 am
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Replies: 11
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| It seems like pure quackery. Congratulations, Jeremy, you have gone from being an autistic child to being an autistic teenager. Next stop: being an autistic young adult. This sort of progression is perfectly normal. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The Lancet: Does autism need a cure? bySimon Baron-Cohen |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 3:53 pm
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Replies: 31
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| It sounds like the book may be presenting the "not really human," argument just to show how ridiculous it is. |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Guardian article on pointing & autism |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 3:46 pm
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| That's got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've read today. And I've done some reading about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today, so that makes this beyond ridiculous. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it anti-semetic.... |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 3:33 pm
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Replies: 106
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| One cannot condone the manner in which the US was founded and condemn the manner in which Israel was created. Both are the arbitrary taking of land from one people by another. Native Americans have full rights of U.S. citizenship, along with whatever additional rights they may have because of their... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it anti-semetic.... |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 3:30 pm
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| Isn't it essentially the same issue? Those who settled modern Israel are considered descendants, one way or another, of a tribe that lived there in the past. Do you begrudge those Native Americans who fought for their land despite the claims of another people upon it? The complaints are the same, j... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it anti-semetic.... |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 3:24 pm
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| Now for some facts and my own opinions on the matter. 1. It is possible to be anti-Zionist without being anti-semitic. Proof: There was almost no anti-semitism in the Muslim world prior to the return of Jews to the land soon to be called Israel. Thus, anti-Zionism started without anti-semitism. 2. I... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is it anti-semetic.... |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 2:58 pm
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| Pardon me for starting one of my favorite rants: I went to a Jewish school, which claimed to be Zionist. However, it never gave us a definition of Zionism. Then there's Antizionism. Is that anything that's not Zionism, (whatever that is?) or is that the polar opposite of Zionism? These questions wil... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The Israeli Flotilla incident |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 2:49 pm
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ruveyn wrote:
If thine enemy smite thee on thy cheek, decapitate him and excrete down his severed neck. Do that often enough and people will stop smiting thee on thy cheek.
ruveyn
1. Where, in any scripture, does it say that?
2. That stops working when both sides have those policies. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The Israeli Flotilla incident |
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Posted: 06 Jun 2010, 2:44 pm
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| Xenon13, you have to be insane to suggest that Israel is wrong to prevent weapons from entering Gaza. The weapons which they are STILL trying to import are for the purpose of firing at Israeli civilians. They are not aimed at military bases, (note that Israel protects its civilians by separating its... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Deaths as Israeli forces storm Gaza aid ship |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2010, 11:32 am
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| Here is another fact fresh from this very thread "Israeli PM who's an activist on one of the ship." Could u perceives a fascist country where such a thing would be possible ? I'm sure that even the US would have a lot of trouble facing such situation let alone any of the nations surrounds us But i ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The Israeli Flotilla incident |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 10:49 pm
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| What are people's thoughts on this one? I'm having trouble finding a discussion about it that's not filled with raving lunatics on both sides. Said raving lunatics, in choosing to be more emotional than rational, obviously forfeit their right to be taken seriously. Perhaps you are having trouble fi... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 'Gaza vs Israel' An interesting article I found. |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 10:03 am
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| Why is there this tendency to assume the Iraelis and Palestinians are on equal ground? http://monkeysmashesheaven.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/palestine_landloss.jpg?w=460&h=306 Ah-Q, your attempts at deception are revealed. Here are some facts and missing context from the picture: 1946 image: P... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The duality of Israel regarding the treatment of Arabs? |
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Posted: 02 Jun 2010, 9:41 am
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| My thoughts on much of what I have read here: 1. The system in Israel is comparable to the Jim Crow system of the United States in the late 1800's. 2. Israel's counter-terrorism barrier is necessary, as it prevents suicide bombers from killing true civilians. 3. It is a war crime to fire from civili... |
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