Anti-vaxxers convinced Sesame Street character Julia is Big Pharma conspiracy to ‘normalize’ autism

[KamaAina]

Not. The. Onion!!

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/anti-vaxxers-convinced-sesame-street-character-julia-is-a-big-pharma-conspiracy-to-normalize-autism/

“Sesame Street” is introducing a new Muppet character who has autism — and some anti-vaxxers are furious.

“The rollout of autistic Julia is Sesame Street’s attempt to ‘normalize’ vaccine injuries and depict those victimized by vaccines as happy, ‘amazing’ children rather than admitting the truth that vaccines cause autism in some children and we should therefore make vaccines safer and less frequent to save those children from a lifetime of neurological damage,” wrote Mike “The Health Ranger” Adams, of Natural News.

While many parents, physicians and educators hailed the character’s introduction, some critics have complained that Julia is a girl — although boys are far more likely to have autism — or pointed out that her autism is relatively moderate.

Adams, however, described the character as “yet another sickening example of the absolute mental derangement of modern society.”

Why isn't this in the clown car?

[hollysmom]

1. where as some people see it as absolute derangement of Mike Adams.

[AndreaCG]

2. My goodness

Talk about mental derangement!

[Algernon Moncrieff]

3. I was wondering why it was brought to us by the letters "G" "S" and "K"

[KamaAina]

6. I see what you did there.

[loyalsister]

4. Another reason to appreciate Sesame Street!

This parallel is especially telling.

An integrated program aimed at impressionable children was too much for the good people of Mississippi. The state's commission for educational television banned the show in May 1970.
Cooney called it "a tragedy for both the white and black children of Mississippi," and news reports saw her outrage and raised it. The state finally reversed itself, 22 days later. When you think about what the world might have looked like without Sesame, you can't dismiss the impact of putting Gordon and Susan into America's living rooms."
http://www.newsweek.com/how-sesame-street-changed-world-80067

I enjoyed seeing this line, too.

"In a world where cultural touchstones are dropping faster than the Mets in September"

[Codeine]

5. And people here at DU still use Natural News

and mothefucking Mike Adams as a source for their woo bullshit.