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Luftmensch

There is a disgusting new page on Facebook called Exterminate all autistics. Despite repeated complainys, Facebook is refusing to delete the page, stating that it "does not violate community standards". Please report this page to Facebook, and join the demand that the hate pasge be deleted.

Please also sign sign this petition https://www.change.org/p/facebook-please-remove-the-page-called-exterminate-all-autistic-s-and-ban-the-page-owner-permanetly-from-facebook-every-single-post-is-a-hatespeech-and-almost-every-post-talks-about-killing-anyone-who-has-autisim-they-even-made-an-event-about-it-than

Roland

  • Georgia State is seemingly mired in every kind of bigotry. They've already been in the news in February this year for legislation that was going to ban all gays from retaurants and hotels and not give them employment. There's a long history of persecution of coloured people, one of the centres of the Klu Klux Klan, but also has a moralising christian black community. The state of Georgia seems to take pride in being the international centre for hate, over every kind.

    Fortunately they are just one small minded state the other side of the Atlantic. There are bigger problems on our own doorstep.

  • I agree with longman that there is a culture of bullying and scapegoating, exacerbated by government policies. But this hate page (thankfully now gone) was far worse than even anything the Tories have done. It was quite explicitly, and graphically, calling for the "extermination of all autistics", and had promised that if, by March, "no cure has been found", they will themselves embark on this mission. A friend of mine has an appointment to discuss this with the Metropolitan Police today, since it is quite clearly illegal incitement.

  • Another example in this country is Lord Freud at the Tory Party Conference allegedly saying that disabled people were "not worth the minimum wage". Ok its a broad anti disabled statement, rather than autism specific, but its a whole lot closer to home. I believe he has apologised, but that misses the point. There are a lot of people in this country with expressed feelings of hate towards any disabled.

  • I cannot access it, and I believe the page, from someone in Atlanta, Georgia, USA has been deleted - as far as I can tell from reports. But I'm no good at facebook, and not a member, so I'm less likely to find the offending page.

    There are other hate pages around. There's been a storm here about Bexhill-on-Sea garden centre cafe advertising for a cook "if you are in receipt of benefits your CV is going in the bin".

    Unfortunately in a recession there tends to be a backlash against the disadvantaged being helped at the taxpayers expence. I've highlighted on a thread "Bullying and Autism" that 38% of people in this country see the disabled as a burden, and more than a quarter are against them receiving financial help.

    The situation has not been helped by David Cameron and his chronies scapegoating the disabled as benefit scroungers, and imposing draconian assessments to reduce the cost of helping the disabled. He obviously knew this was a good policy because the statistics show a lot of (Conservative voters?) applaud this. However the same was true of Nazi persecution of Jews in the 1930s and 1940s in that it was approved by a lot of the population. Populist gratification of hate crime isn't nice and I am a lot more worried about David Cameron's prejudices than one nutter in Atlanta Georgia.