Many people know that vaccines were linked to autism by a fraud and con artist who just wanted to sell his own alternative vaccines.
What a lot of people DON’T know is that he had no reason to choose autism for this scam except that it had JUST started entering mainstream consciousness and was still barely understood by most people. He took advantage of ignorance and confusion already surrounding a hype train and it could have been anything but it happened to be Autism at that particular time.
That’s how fucking meaningless the connection is.
Wakefield didn’t just claim it caused autism–he also claimed it caused an inflammatory bowel disease. That didn’t quite capture the public imagination the same way, though…
It’s worse than that. That wasn’t a rubber bullet, that was another tear gas canister–you can see it a few seconds later in the footage when the camera pans over to the advancing cops.
And they shot him in the crotch with it.
If I were feeling charitable I’d say that the cop who fired the shell was aiming for center of mass and miscalculated the distance and hit the guy low.
But I’m not feeling charitable. It’s clear that was a deliberate malicious attack designed to hurt the guy as badly as possible with the weapon at hand. The goal was to cause him pain and intimidate bystanders.
this really is dystopic, isn’t it?
Shout out to the dude who came and helped him up
THIS IS WHY YOU BLACK BLOC. WHEN EVERYONE IS MASKED AND IN ALL BLOC, IT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE POLICE TO TARGET INDIVIDUALS LIKE THIS
MASK UP, COME IN BLOC, BE PREPARED, YOU. COULD SAVE SOMEONES LIFE
Also get to know your street medics and maybe buy them a drink later. They’ll often be the ones picking you up and making sure you’re good after this shit happens
people have become so incredibly desensitized to pedophilia online its crazy
“they arent a pedophile/arent playing into pedophilic culture, they are just sexually aroused by things that children do and by children characters and imagining themself as a child in sexual situations and are good friends with people who create child porn!” do you people realize how you sound
to everybody commenting on this post saying that tumblr classifies too many things as pedophilia and that somehow makes the term less serious: what do you propose we call somebody being turned on by the idea of being a little kid in a sexual situation? what do you propose we call somebody who is exclusively attracted to little anime girls? what do you propose we call people who don’t fit the stereotype of “creepy 50 year old with a pedostache who watches “real” child porn as opposed to animated videos of ~fictional~ little girls being raped”? please enlighten me.
just because something isn’t obviously targeting real children (and trust me, even if something is “fictional” it WILL encourage “real” predators) doesn’t make the person any less of a pedophile.
pedophilia is defined as “attraction to children.” stop blaming tumblr for the general acceptance of not-so-subtle pedophilia. i’ve seen this shit on plenty of other websites. you guys are literally doing the exact thing that i was talking about on this post.
i would rather broaden the definition of pedophilia to include other harmful but more oblique behaviors than narrow it to give leniency to people who are the definition of pedophiles, just not in the ways that most people consider it.
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Anyone else remember the time the gay couple from WTNV joked about their sex life during a live show and all the people who’d been headcanoning them as ace had a giant collective meltdown and tried to smear the irl gay actors (one of whom is HIV+) as problematic for “alienating” them?
thats literally where the term allogay comes from btw. it was literally coined in derogatory reference to cecil baldwin, the openly hiv+ gay man who voices the lead character.
Lol also op is in the tags saying they never ever mentioned gay men whatsoever when they clearly are referring to people head canoning/ picking up on the gay coding of male characters lmfaooooooo like just accept the loss bro you made a bad post
It’s not just that he’s dehumanizing them; it’s the context of him saying that, when you release them, they just come back. This sounds very much like the lead-up to a mass extermination.
Procrastination Station 