Autism Speaks' Eugenic Agenda
It's not really news that the ultimate goal of Autism Speaks is to wipe out the entire autistic population through prenatal testing and eugenic abortion. After all, one of their leading researchers, Dr. Joseph Buxbaum of the Autism Genome Project, frankly admitted as much in an interview almost three years ago, before NAAR merged into Autism Speaks.
But for the most part, they've managed to put up a somewhat plausible pretense of being a mainstream charity that just wants to prevent suffering, and so forth. Most of the material on their website is carefully designed to keep the public unaware of their close ideological affinity with the white supremacist agenda of creating a master race through eugenics. A casual reader might not notice a page featuring the views of Dr. James Watson, with whom Bob and Suzanne Wright had a friendly chat regarding autism genetic research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
autismspeaks.org/inthenews/wrights_cold_spring_harbor.php
Watson, a molecular biologist, is famous for his genetic research discoveries. He is equally infamous for his long history of advocating white supremacy and eugenic extermination of people with neurological differences, which he characterizes as curing stupidity.
On October 18th, Watson was suspended from his position as the Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after making racist comments during an interview with a British newspaper that included these remarks about blacks: "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really" and "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."
It's frankly impossible that Autism Speaks, in making the decision to feature their association with Watson on their website, could have been unaware of his bigoted extremist agenda. His racist attitudes have been well known for many years.
What's going to be next for Autism Speaks, I wonder... an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan?
But for the most part, they've managed to put up a somewhat plausible pretense of being a mainstream charity that just wants to prevent suffering, and so forth. Most of the material on their website is carefully designed to keep the public unaware of their close ideological affinity with the white supremacist agenda of creating a master race through eugenics. A casual reader might not notice a page featuring the views of Dr. James Watson, with whom Bob and Suzanne Wright had a friendly chat regarding autism genetic research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
autismspeaks.org/inthenews/wrights_cold_spring_harbor.php
Watson, a molecular biologist, is famous for his genetic research discoveries. He is equally infamous for his long history of advocating white supremacy and eugenic extermination of people with neurological differences, which he characterizes as curing stupidity.
On October 18th, Watson was suspended from his position as the Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory after making racist comments during an interview with a British newspaper that included these remarks about blacks: "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really" and "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."
It's frankly impossible that Autism Speaks, in making the decision to feature their association with Watson on their website, could have been unaware of his bigoted extremist agenda. His racist attitudes have been well known for many years.
What's going to be next for Autism Speaks, I wonder... an endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan?
Labels: Autism Speaks, bigotry, eugenics
posted by abfh at
10:56 AM
2 Comments:
Thanks for putting this up.
Since your comment (and others) on my post regarding Watson, I've been putting together a follow up post that goes into more detail regarding some of his eugenics views.
The fact that he has been allowed to continue to spout such things for years prior to now without any repurcussion simply astounds me.
I doubt that AS will take references to him off of their website.
Joe
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Club 166, at 5:36 PM
I wonder why they don't get smart and try to target whiner money raising liars, woo practitioners, lie through their teeth politicians, pathological terrorists and some of the other folks we could really probably be better off without.
But then again, I shouldn't even let my mind go there, as even the creeps deserve a chance until they break the law.
By
Patrick, at 6:30 PM
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