Another day, another outrage

[conuly]

That Organization has come out with another video, one that is apparently as suck-tastic as the last one. I haven't seen it, but I read the transcript. Apparently, they're very creepy, but that's no surprise.

Comments

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

man: I am autism. I'm visible in your children, but if I can help it, I am invisible to you until it's too late. I know where you live, and guess what? I live there too. I hover around all of you. I know no color barrier, no religion, no morality, no currency. I speak your language fluently, and with every voice I take away, I acquire yet another language. I work very quickly. I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer, and diabetes combined.

...Holy shit. What the hell are they trying to accomplish with this video?

[wodhaund.livejournal.com]

No kidding. It isn't just cancer, it's AIDS and diabetes, too!

Man, I never knew autism was such a horrifically painful, frequently deadly disease! Thanks, video! Now I know the truth! [/sarcasm]

[conuly]

Money?

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, really? Well, that makes sense. It reads like something from a horror movie; I can't imagine anything less helpful, frankly.

[codeman38.livejournal.com]

Hee, I had forgotten about that TV Tropes entry. And yep, the second half of that ad seems to pretty much embody that trope.

[conuly]

It makes cent$, you mean.

Ye gods!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

My name is virus poliomyelitis. I cause a disease which you call infantile paralysis. I consider myself quite an artist, a sort of sculptor. I specialize in grotesques, twisting and deforming human bodies. That's why I'm called -- The Crippler. You've never seen me but I'm sure you've seen my shadow. I'm never invited but I've been an invisible guest in practically every kind of home... As you probably know, I'm very fond of children, especially little children. I have no prejudices. I'm quite impartial.... I'm feeling unusually active today. I might start an epidemic!

*headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

The concept is obviously taken from "Taming the Crippler", the 1954 March of Dimes polio awareness short which ran in theaters for several years. It was shown before each feature, and at the same time a can would be passed for terrified viewers to drop money into.

Now, if this is what it took to get people to contribute money to put a stop to an actual disease, fine. Someone we love very dearly barely escaped with his life just before that film was made. He suffers with after-effects to this day.

Although we've heard a few things about the March of Dimes that we're not exactly wild about, either.

But mapping this terrorizing technique onto autism to extract money (for what!) is criminal.