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[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 58 points 8 months ago

So.. Is this satire, or is it for real? It's getting harder and harder to tell..

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 120 points 8 months ago

Pretty sure it's sarcasm based on the correct grammar, spelling and proper use of social context but like you said it's impossible to tell for sure

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 35 points 8 months ago

Lets not pretend tons of well educated and otherwise privileged people aren't anti-vaxxers.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 28 points 8 months ago

Being educated and privileged doesn't mean someone's smart

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 10 points 8 months ago

Being perceived as "smart" is a privilege, and it's just as irrelevant to being anti-vaxx as all the other privileges are (in fact, many of those who someone like you might not perceive as "smart" - disabled people, and specifically autistic people, are the open target of anti-vaxx propaganda that frames us as an undesirable thing to be, for, amongst other things, not being "smart"). So I'll say it again - tons of well educated and otherwise privileged people are anti-vaxxers, and pretending otherwise isn't just classist and ableist, it's also just plain wrong and counterproductive.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The blog post you linked to seems to conflate intelligence with IQ and then use that to draw the conclusion that the whole concept of intelligence is a myth and ableist. That idea seems like, well, nonsense. I really don't see how it's ableist to acknowledge that everybody's cognitive skills aren't exactly the same

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 8 months ago

Progressive thought keeps running into fascists using things like IQ studies to argue for genocidal policies and tends to react by throwing the whole thing out the door because otherwise everyone needs to spend five hundred words just defining basic terminology for the discussion.

[-] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

woah, amazing observation, I wonder how we can avoid the problem?

Maybe it's Maybelline

[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

You can laugh at how ridiculous it is either way.

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago
[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 35 points 8 months ago

Autistic Bond is actually an amazing idea.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 32 points 8 months ago

Wasn't that the whole idea behind The Accountant?

[-] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago

Sounds like they didn't

puts sunglasses on

Account for it.

[-] Shard@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Wait, I thought that was Johnny English...

[-] the_third@feddit.de 23 points 8 months ago

"If you expect me to die, Mr. Goldfinger, this is a rather inefficient contraption. Allow me to give you a few pointers."

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 8 months ago
[-] Gloomy@mander.xyz 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The link on that website doesn't work for me.

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

~~For some reason the website isn't using https. Your browser may warn about that, but since you aren't doing anything important with it it's ok~~

The link on the website is dead, not the website itself. I get it now.

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 8 months ago

I think it's not the link to the website, but the link on the new website to the research. It links to a PDF but shows "Not found".

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, true, didn't actually click on that

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

It's the hyperlink in the middle of the website that's dead not the website itself. Not related to not having a HTTPS cert

[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This would be a pretty ok joke if somebody wasn't actually being serious about it. Context sucks.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 11 points 8 months ago

Remember when antivaxxers were just the butt of the joke, insted of just a lot of people going: yeah that makes sense.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Drinking bleach and huffing ivermectin. These people just love weird parties.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago

This is satire, absolutely. Yet not inaccurate in terms of how "Christian" bigots actually think vaccines work. You can tell how illiterate and uneducated someone is by how few vaccines they've bothered to get for themselves or their children. And such worthless vermin SHOULD go and die, and leave the rest of us to be responsible adults as we are meant to be.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Too bad these folks will take out some vulnerable people along the way.

We somehow need to do way better about instilling a sense of duty to society in people.

[-] tygerprints@kbin.social 2 points 8 months ago

That's how I feel about it. When you get over being a spoiled teenager, you should develop a sense of maturity and responsibility. Part of being a real adult is having the social responsibility to get vaccinated to help protect and take care of others, not just yourself.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Shunning.

Antivax people get a flight to Wrangel.

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think one thing that isn’t quite talked about enough re: anti-vaxxers is how wildly ableist they are.

Edit: spelling

[-] Lolman228@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

Jokes on you, my Shungite crystals will protect me from that evil!

[-] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

This is just a Cumtown bit

[-] livestreamedcollapse@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Alas, Dr. Mullen's impact factor has waned ever since that Sus halkias obesity germline escaped his research facility, necessitating the pivot to entomology. My electrons are in their Highest Occupied Molecular Orbitals.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 5 points 8 months ago

If only villians were truly that stoopid!

Also, missed the chance to say "Your artistic now" (sic):-P

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