06:28 am - Rest assured, we have not heard the end of this...
UPDATE: NYU’s controversial “Ransom Notes” campaign has now been officially halted. Huge thanks and congratulations are in order, for Ari Ne’eman and everyone at ASAN, and for everyone in the broader disability, self-advocacy, and ‘neurodiversity’ communities who pulled together to convince NYU to rethink their approach. Still, there are crucial aspects of our message that have simply not been heard. This must change …
In the mean time, here's a point-blank question for the exalted Dr. Harold Koplewicz and other esteemed oracles of psychiatric wisdom at New York University:
IS the systematic dissemination and reinforcement, intentional or otherwise, of pervasive social prejudice genuinely conducive to long-term mental health for any segment of society?
Please register your responses now ... and don't forget to ask yourself that question again, before launching your next "awareness" campaign.
That is all.
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11:25 pm - Goodbye VileJournal. Have a nice implosion.
As of this morning, my status as a LiveJournal user is now officially terminated. This was over a year in coming, and I need not detail the causes here. I had been planning to commit to the final deletion on December 31st, and had announced such to my f-list there. But this morning, when I clicked in from offsite, I discovered that Every Single Post had been placed behind a Nanny-State cut, sternly warning passersby, "Oh, dear! You may not be Mature™ enough to view whatever material might be in this post! Now, give me that crayon! You might poke your eye out!"
Sorry, my LJ friends, but that was just the final Last Straw.
It's over.
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