Nazis and Incels
“While we do need law enforcement to try and stop the next terrorist act; long-term, it’s well past time to think structurally.” My latest on Toronto, Waffle House, and Georgia Nazis for Pacific Standard
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UK Homeopathic Grifters Try to Kill Autistic Kids
The “Autism cure” industry harms kids and uses ableism to fuel their grift. Case in point: Smits, the creator of CEASE therapy, wrote in his book that “all kinds of detoxification reactions may occur” as a result of the treatment. Most common is fever, he said, which “should not be treated with medication, as it …
Verne Troyer, RIP
Eugene Grant reacts to the death of this actor with dwarfism: I hate the character Mini-Me – the replica, the biddable pet, the victim of violence made to appear funny. But I was moved and saddened to hear of Verne Troyer’s passing and to learn more about his struggles. I am thinking of those who …
Ethan Saylor
Ethan Saylor case settled for 1.9 million dollars. Off-duty deputies murdered the young man with Down syndrome in January 2013.
Don’t Normalize Murder: Dallas Filicide
The Dallas Morning News has a piece on parents, as they age, contemplating murdering their adult kids. Explaining away these murders as understandable, however, promotes the notion that it’s a reasonable act. The risk of contagion with such reporting is high. Reporters: read ASAN’s anti-filicide kit before writing about filicide, please. And if you are going to …
Koch on Campus: ASU Version
Around the country, the Koch Brothers are donating to universities to create right-wing-only counter institutions within more open institutions, creating precisely the kind of ideological bubble they claim to deplore. Here’s the latest from Arizona State University. I served as the director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University …
The Weekend in White Supremacy
Another weekend in white supremacy. Nazis in Georgia, marching and burning swastikas and runes. Waffle House shooter is right-wing extremist. So that’s all going terribly.
The Right Wing on Campus
They’re coming for your student government. “The American right, aided alas by far too many allegedly centrist writers, keep attacking left-wing academics for what the right wing is actually doing. Right-wing provocateurs and their violent supporters are what’s threatening free expression on campus—not safe spaces or trigger warnings. Christian schools make students worship the flag …
Asperger and Nazi Collaboration
At long last, Herwig Czech’s study of Hans Asperger’s complicity in Nazi eugenic programs was published. My understanding is that he has been talking about his findings for some years, but only allowing select authors to view his documents. There’s also a new book by Edith Sheffer, who wrote this op-ed. The book comes out …
The Ship Who Sang: AT in SF
I wrote about John Scalzi’s assisted tech series, Lock In and Head On. It’s an interesting series from a disability culture series in many ways, but especially because there’s so little sci-fi really focused on assistive tech as a major plot issue. There’s lots of assistive tech around sci-fi, but not as a central point. …