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The US is proposing creating a register of those with autism

Iain

If you haven't seen the news, Roberr F Kennedy Jr has proposed that there is setup a register of people with autism in the USA.

He also proposes a bunch of misinformation about autism to justify this (e.g. it is a preventable disease caused by environmental toxins)) -

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-04-23/is-rfk-jr-creating-an-autism-registry-what-to-know

News these days can be very biassed in its reporting so it helps that Snopes has researched the article in more depth:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/04/22/rfk-jr-registry-to-track-autism/

My concern is that this is opening the door to eugenics. Look at his statement: "These are kids who will 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, many of them will never use a toilet unassisted,”

It does not take much of a stretch of the imagination for a regeime already leaning heavily on facist methodology to start to build registers of the undesirables - those they can get rid of because they are a burdon on society.

Once the US starts to normalise the process then other countries are going to believe thet can do the same - the Pandoras box will have been opened.

It is a very troubling time to be autistic.

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  • Robert F Kennedy Jnr tells lies so that he has a false pretext for his planned autism register. I am delighted that reputable scientists are condemning this and remain hopeful that the backlash will prevent any of his ridiculous ideas becoming reality.  

    For some Republican voters, Eugenics is exactly what they seek to do to make the ‘US’ as productive and prosperous as possible through elimination of the poor, disabled and vulnerable. Musk, according to today’s Mail on Sunday, seeks to ‘father 5000 mini Musks’. It claims that Musk wants to seed the world with mini Musks of high intelligence. The idea being that the white superior brain of a genius will ‘make America great again’. Some voters are concerned that the population isn’t growing quickly enough to provide enough working age adults to keep the economy ticking over. The Mail on Sunday is a newspaper that people read because they like sensationalist articles that might not always reflect the truth, so it is welcome to Musk. 

    The world economy is being wrecked and according to US newspapers, the majority of Republican voters are saying they are going to weather out the storm, even though some of them are financially poorer due to Trump’s policies. The poll in yesterday’s Washington Post gives an indication of sentiments. 

    I am interested in the world, but I’m practicing the art of detachment from things that might not happen or things I can’t control.


     

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  • Robert F Kennedy Jnr tells lies so that he has a false pretext for his planned autism register. I am delighted that reputable scientists are condemning this and remain hopeful that the backlash will prevent any of his ridiculous ideas becoming reality.  

    For some Republican voters, Eugenics is exactly what they seek to do to make the ‘US’ as productive and prosperous as possible through elimination of the poor, disabled and vulnerable. Musk, according to today’s Mail on Sunday, seeks to ‘father 5000 mini Musks’. It claims that Musk wants to seed the world with mini Musks of high intelligence. The idea being that the white superior brain of a genius will ‘make America great again’. Some voters are concerned that the population isn’t growing quickly enough to provide enough working age adults to keep the economy ticking over. The Mail on Sunday is a newspaper that people read because they like sensationalist articles that might not always reflect the truth, so it is welcome to Musk. 

    The world economy is being wrecked and according to US newspapers, the majority of Republican voters are saying they are going to weather out the storm, even though some of them are financially poorer due to Trump’s policies. The poll in yesterday’s Washington Post gives an indication of sentiments. 

    I am interested in the world, but I’m practicing the art of detachment from things that might not happen or things I can’t control.


     

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Going off topic, but the idea of Musk wanting to sire so many children fills me with revulsion, the ethics of it which borders on a cult.

    What I've realised recently though which comforts me is that he may "father" many children, but he'll never be a good "parent" to them because he ignores them. What he doesn't understand is that his genetics are not enough to make intelligent children (assuming he is intelligent himself, which I think he overestimates greatly). He needs to nurture them, but he isn't interested in that. All that will happen is he creates a bizarrely huge "family" that has no connection to him - somehow I doubt they will inherit anything from him in terms of financial wealth.