Some excellent points, just from what I've observed from a distance.
Then again, parent bloggers on a blog hub supposedly dedicated to "ethics" can get away with talking about doing things to their children that trigger me into an incoherent rage, all in the name of "treatment" and "intervention."
Oh my, yes. This is one of the things which made me want to keep my distance. (I wrote a little more about that here.) There have been just about too many displays of disrespect to count, even from a distance.
as long as they were using the right language set. There's a difference between having a group of posters with a reasonable, normal variety of views, beliefs and experiences, and things like allowing people a platform for the posting of biodeterminist racist bullshit which is glossed over with scientific-sounding language and weasel words about "diversity."
Exactly. :-| I had managed not to see the blog you linked to there. Oh my. Just reading through the lovely Creoles, Aboriginal Identity and Autism just about made my head explode. (Or maybe that's just being some kind of throwback to a more primitive kind of human making me so cranky. Gee, that blogger is onto me!) And I thought some of the parent blogs were full of nastiness covered up in the "right" language. Apparently, if you make a show of talking about "diversity", you can say any kind of hateful crap you like.
From polemista: It's well meant but ill-advised in its "but they're autistic, therefore we must let them speak or we oppress them" as if autistics couldn't be oppressive themselves.
Yep. I hadn't quite put the words on that dynamic, but that's a really good description of some of the condescending BS! Gah.
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Date: 2010-05-24 01:48 pm (UTC)Then again, parent bloggers on a blog hub supposedly dedicated to "ethics" can get away with talking about doing things to their children that trigger me into an incoherent rage, all in the name of "treatment" and "intervention."
Oh my, yes. This is one of the things which made me want to keep my distance. (I wrote a little more about that here.) There have been just about too many displays of disrespect to count, even from a distance.
as long as they were using the right language set. There's a difference between having a group of posters with a reasonable, normal variety of views, beliefs and experiences, and things like allowing people a platform for the posting of biodeterminist racist bullshit which is glossed over with scientific-sounding language and weasel words about "diversity."
Exactly. :-| I had managed not to see the blog you linked to there. Oh my. Just reading through the lovely Creoles, Aboriginal Identity and Autism just about made my head explode. (Or maybe that's just being some kind of throwback to a more primitive kind of human making me so cranky. Gee, that blogger is onto me!) And I thought some of the parent blogs were full of nastiness covered up in the "right" language. Apparently, if you make a show of talking about "diversity", you can say any kind of hateful crap you like.
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It's well meant but ill-advised in its "but they're autistic, therefore we must let them speak or we oppress them" as if autistics couldn't be oppressive themselves.
Yep. I hadn't quite put the words on that dynamic, but that's a really good description of some of the condescending BS! Gah.