#PeopleAsJoke
#MassDehumanizationPopular
#FWakeMakingFun
#Autism #FWakeAutismC ++
#ActuallyAutistic
People treated "as a joke"
My whole life from as young an age as I can recall, mocking and "making fun of" mentally disabled people has been encouraged by parents / adults /leaders in society. I was born in 1969 in Georgia. Family from Ohio, started grade school in Indiana.
Making fun of ugly people, "make a joke out of" ugly people, fat people, mentally disabled people, sexual differences, calling men "pussy" and praising ignorance, stupidity, anti-intellectual, anti-understanding, anti-comprehension, anti-goodness.
I have lived in South America (Arica, Chile) - in North Africa (Algeria), Middle East (Jordan), Indonesia, Malaysia in my adulthood and I have witnessed people mock and "make a joke of" those that are poor, mentally disabled, immgrants, outsiders, all over.
I think it is a big part of #OutGroupHate
I have come to the conclusion that the hate equations Dr. Martin Luther King Jr shared in February 1954 are true. No matter the geography or time period, hate is always bad and should be seen as something to leave behind in history and not carried forward.
I think "turning people into a joke" is a form of hate and dehumanization, encouraged at the youngest age.
