Posted on 04/27/2023 8:09:09 PM PDT by Morgana
The doll does not look much like a Down’s Syndrome person. It is a good try, though.
Yep! Crowder is edgy, that’s his shtick, and he is an equal opportunity offender making fun of just about everything and everyone. He’s a comedian.
He often says things that make me cringe or groan and at the same time I’m laughing my arse off. Virtue signalling is nothing more or less than a subset part of liberal victimhood culture. When people indulge in it it makes everyone weaker.
Collectors will snatch them up.
It is possible for both to be true, i.e.: Matel is virtue signaling and also: It’s poor judgement to call it out in this way.
As bad as this that I saw today: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrV-QGavc98/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=ad992c89-ec75-4d3c-82ca-4f305be63598
Did you see this? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4148948/posts
Your point?
Are you saying that measures should have been instituted to give Scott a "lower profile?" Should he have been, e.g., somehow "hushed?" Would you have been right to make a judgement call and simply not relay Scott's off-topic or irrelevant questions? Were the other students right to be annoyed? Were Scott's inappropriate questions evidence that he really shouldn't have been in college at all? Are you arguing against this so-called "mainstreaming?" Was it a farce?
Your statement that you had volunteered to be a Personal Assistant to a handicapped person suggests that you felt (and still feel?) sympathetic towards these people - yet your posting seems to indicate that you view their participation in college with ambivalence.
I "get it" that the professor may have been "pandering" by giving undue attention to Scott's off-topic questions - was that the entire point of your posting?!
Regards,
Such dolls - with disabilities, or with a different skin color - are aimed at NORMAL children, not handicapped ones.
NORMAL children are often charmed by such dolls.
My little, 4-year-old daughter once had a favorite doll - "Baby Sally" - that had lost an arm. It was also otherwise somewhat worse for the wear, so my wife and I calmly talked it over with our daughter and explained that we would dispose of the doll and get her a new one.
You should have seen her burst into tears and passionately defend her "disabled" doll, saying that "You don't throw someone away just because they're hurt!"
We still have that doll, twenty years later!
Regards,
I worked doing fundraisers for a foundation that had dozens of Downs’ kids coming every day to learn what they could. I absolutely love those little kids, just as sweet as they come. I contribute to Special Olympics all the time. My neighbor is a nurse who didn’t retire until she was 80, worked at a different place serving Downs’ kids. She loved them to much to leave and they loved her too.
So, I find nothing funny about making fun of them.
Actually, this was juvenile entertainment.
Why would a conservative make fun of Down’s Syndrome? He’s probably rabidly pro-abortion.
Virtue signaling is for thibfa like trans. Leftists hate people with Down’s Syndrome.
Awe come on! A Downs syndrome Barbie? When I was a kid I thought my cousin had a Quadriplegic Barbie, but it turned out she had just pulled a tantrum one day and ripped of the dolls arms and legs. I now wonder if she was on to something back then. Seriously, whats next, COVID-19 Barbie with miniature respirator? A hangover Barbie that tosses chucks in a little Barbie toilet? An IBS Barbie that farts constantly and a brown liquid runs down her leg if you squeeze her? Why not just stick to the old Barbie thats just absolutely useless and does nothing bug stare at you with a painted on smile if you talk to it, oh wait…..there is one already, its the Biden Barbie!
Thank you for correcting the sentence where “still” was less appropriate than “already”. And I am sorry the story meandered too far in an attempt to describe a situation that has marginal relevance in this thread in the first place. The point of the story was the ending.
“The local paper wrote a long mostly fictional article about how great the former football star was doing in college.”
Most of those who didn't live with Scott knew only what was in the newspaper article which was fiction. Those of us who attempted to assist him knew the situation was not accurately described. And yes, I am ambivalent about Scott's situation. Many of those who I have helped care for over the years were amazing people who despite their infirmities managed to share a great deal with others. I am not going to go into further detail about Scott to make my point or try to portray my actions in a more attractive light. I have already wasted enough space.
It is wrong to view disabled people with rose colored glasses. That in itself is demeaning. There are some that are good and others who are not so good. The politically correct virtue signalers here pretend that everyone who has a problem is good. My wife was a board member for years for a state funded facility which cared for mentally disabled people. Many of them had down's syndrome. Most of them were agreeable to interact with, but not all.
I have learned a great deal from people who have had cognitive difficulties and physical difficulties. Some of the situations that I have gotten myself into helping people have gone way beyond the point where most reasonable people would have called it quits. At my retirement party while others were thanking the chiefs, the council people, the mayor, etc. etc... I thanked my wife for putting up with me and all the outrageous situations that I got us into trying to help people. I then told the story of a person with cognitive difficulties whose aid my crew and I came to who eventually ended up staying at our home for weeks with my wife providing the majority of his care.
I do not care if you felt my story was pointless doo doo with bad grammar. I put up with and assisted Scott the best that I could, I have no regrets and am making no judgement as to his actions or how his behavior might have been handled better. I simply gave details about the situation; you can make your own judgement.
I have little respect for transparent virtue signaling especially from corporations but also from individuals. Most people have no actual experience and are merely competing with others to demonstrate that they are better than others by making flowery statements. It is kind of a joke to those who actually have hands on experience.
And to help you... the paragraph immediately ahead of this one is the point.
You are correct when it comes to abortion, but a lot of the people we worked with who were helping Down's Syndrome people had leftist leanings. That is largely because we live in the middle of a leftist part of the country.
Many of those who identify as right wing virtue signal almost as much and in some cases, more than their left wing counterparts. I know a bunch of them. They are all talk and no do; they are constantly trying to judge the ones that actually are not afraid to get their hands dirty. As if flowery language is more important than sincere caring and action
Can’t wait to see the new flexi-gender Barbie/Brian dolls. Besides changeable hair styles the come with snap on/of anatomically correct body parts so that the owners can chose gender extremes or anything in between. The skin of the dolls is actually a battery powered co-polymer that chanes color from Artic White to Nubian Blue-Black, or anywhere inbetween. The shade is controlled by a micro-dial on the dolls left buttock cheek. The Ken/Kelsey doll is a identical except for packaging. With a pair of these dolls a child is able to simulate 201 different gender pairings and an infinite number of racial representations.
Is the footage snatched from a Ring doorbell...?
When I was young Downs Syndrome children were referred to a Mongoloid Idiots. They were locked up in the back room of the house and never seen. Maybe that’s what some consider the “good old days.” When I look at a a person with Downs Syndrome I see the face of God.
Sage advice.
I'm sure there are other woke Barbies he could poke fun at are a lot more retarded.
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