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[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 58 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 120 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] DessertStorms@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

You can laugh at how ridiculous it is either way.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Autistic Bond is actually an amazing idea.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wasn't that the whole idea behind The Accountant?

[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

Sounds like they didn't

puts sunglasses on

Account for it.

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Wait, I thought that was Johnny English...

[–] the_third@feddit.de 23 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

Ah, true, didn't actually click on that

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years 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 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[–] Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is just a Cumtown bit

[–] livestreamedcollapse@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 3 points 2 years ago

If only villians were truly that stoopid!

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