4d ago

‘Slippery slope to eugenics’: advocates reject Robert F Kennedy jnr’s national autism database in US

www.irishtimes.com

Autism researchers and advocates in the United States are pushing back against the creation of an autism database that is meant to track the health of autistic people in a major research study.

https://archive.ph/R4kmB

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There isn't a slippery slope. They are doing it. Do you need an executive order called "WE'RE DOING EUGENICS"...
I'm tired of the edging. The perpetual brink of disaster. It's here. There are no more red lines. We passed them a long time ago. This is authoritarian America. They are doing the things. Enough with the edging.
- im climaxing from fascism!
- Autism registry can be used to target people with autism, invade their privacy, increase stigma, and take away their rights. But I don't see how this is eugenics. Autism isn't even entirely genetic.
  
  Do you think they will care whether it's entirely genetic or not? For Now they blame the vaccines, later they will link it to genetics and try to prevent the spreading.
  
  You said it's eugenics. Anyway, yeah, it's plausible the registry could be used for eugenic reasons some day but personally I think it's intended for all those other reasons. Let's not slippery slope fallacy.

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