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RFK Jr.’s Autism Database: Is it Nazi?
A series of short, helpful essays explaining that yes, it probably is.
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On Monday May 5, RFK Jr went on Fox News to defend his registry for autistic people, and to tell viewers that the government would need to pry into citizens’ private medical records to do it. RFK Jr. has called autism an “existential disease,” saying “They’ll never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date.” He claims that “Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children.” To sum up, RFK Jr thinks that autistic people are not producing healthy children of their own and are a drain on the economic system, and that a database tracking them will help him stamp out autism once and for all. And as…
