Diversity Hire

professional know it all. mom. independent. business owner. too many opinions.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Oscar Wilde

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@EricMGarcia @TheAtlantic @HannaRosin That’s so condescending.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@emilykmay Thank you so much for this piece. My daughter is the same age and level as yours. The more the world includes autism, the more isolating it feels.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@emilykmay @andrewdisney And worst of all, we are told all of this by people who have the words and capability to do so. People who have never experienced profound autism.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

If 5 years ago you felt like giving unchecked power to our government because of #Covid, you have absolutely no ground to complain today because it means that your perception of “government overreach” only depends on if you agree with said overreach.

[Boston Mom @LaGrecca333]

One of the absolute craziest things I’ve ever seen was watch private businesses force people to show a stupid paper card to show you had a covid vaccine fully knowing they didn’t stop the spread of Covid, and the enforcement of this lunacy was done by civilians. It was done by your friends, or neighbors. They didn’t need the police, or the military. Average normies were happy to be deputized as enforcers for it all. Bone chilling.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@buttonslives As the parent of a profoundly impacted child, I am grateful for this. While self-described autistic adults infiltrate parent support groups against behavioral interventions & therapies with which they have no personal experience, parents are often talked out of critical services

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

I was diagnosed with Asperger’s by a psychiatrist in 2019, and I share the concerns raised in this article. 

At the time, the diagnosis provided relief—it offered an explanation for the extreme difficulties I had faced in my youth. However, observing the online autism community quickly made me realize that the neurodiversity movement is creating more problems than it is solving. 

The “#actuallyautistic” activists attempt to dictate language, control what researchers are allowed to study, and divert resources away from those with severe impairments. They also bully anyone who refuses to adopt their ideology, including parents of severely disabled children.

The 2013 decision to merge Asperger’s into the broader Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis was a grave mistake. I continued using the term Asperger’s to distinguish myself from those with profound autism, even though I was called a Nazi for it, because that distinction felt important. But today, I feel even less attached to the diagnosis.

Autism is classified as a “neurodevelopmental disorder,” yet there is no objective test for it. Diagnosis is based entirely on behavioral criteria, leaving it open to subjective interpretation—which can explain why so many people “identify” with it today.

I’m concerned not only about overdiagnosis but also about how neurodiversity activists encourage those who identify with the diagnosis to lean into dysfunction—insisting that society should accommodate them rather than encouraging them to accommodate themselves and work toward overcoming their challenges.

Aside from my motor-balance issues, which I haven't found a solution for (I crash into walls every day), many of the struggles I faced in my youth and young adulthood have lessened because I put a lot of work into myself.

My social difficulties, though still apparent, have improved with determination and experience. I worked hard to overcome rigid thinking. I carry sunglasses and earplugs with me wherever I go. I’m fortunate now to have designed a life that accommodates my sensory issues—I live in a quiet place and work from home. I've channeled my intense interests into a developing career that I'm proud of.

It’s important to recognize that there is a strong incentive for people to gravitate toward a diagnosis that allows them to reframe their shortcomings as something beyond their control—because it makes them feel less responsible for their perceived failures. In doing so, many are surrendering their agency rather than trying to improve their circumstances.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@JenniferSey @mary_Mack5 I lost so many friends because the same people who write this now spent most of the pandemic calling people who doubted “covidiots”. The absolute audacity.

[𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 @txsalth2o]

It’s amazing how many foreign nations feel entitled to the money we wake up & earn every day.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@MEATERmade hey I’m
Trying to exchange my brand new block Xmas gift for the new model (bought from your website). I’m not getting anywhere. Can you help?

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Let's be honest a lot of Extremely Online people are mentally unwell.

[(Formerly) Brooklyn Mom @graciefacelove]

If you stood by in silence while millions of children were locked out of schools for two years, masked, & subjected to the sham of remote “learning”—a pathetic excuse for real education—you have absolutely no right to open your mouth about Trump’s decisions regarding the Department of Education. Sit down.

Better yet, sit down, outside, on the concrete, in a mask, six feet apart from your friends, in January in NYC.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@elonmusk JPL just had another layoff round Tuesday. Engineers took the brunt and DEI office survived

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@graciefacelove They also forced special ed kids completely out of school for at least 2 years.

[Boston Mom @LaGrecca333]

If you wore a mask for years, took a selfie of your Covid vaccination, believed it was safer to sit at home in lockdown, than go to the gym. You don’t get to call RFK a science denying kook.

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@elonmusk The best thing @elonmusk could do for government efficiency would be to investigate and convert the many proprietary & dead programming languages that power government software systems. It makes private contractors rich and our systems weak

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@BehizyTweets @contrarian4data Reddit proof: https://t.co/8YN0YCRsVP

[Diversity Hire @taboo_red]

@sarahbeth345 One of the biggest issues with being a liberal is that you have imparted so much power to the government you have absolutely no idea what it’s capable of.

[SúperSanAndréas @SuperAndrea]

Allow me a moment of your time to try to answer the question I keep seeing: "How could Latinos vote for Trump." As the daughter of two immigrants and an immigrant myself, I can say that you will not grasp what makes Latinos tick until you understand where we came from. My parents experienced communism and bread lines, and I was born under a dictatorship after the communist regime was ousted. My parents have a visceral reaction against any government that tries to control them.  They lived through food rationing, extreme poverty, and misery, guided by the idea that everyone needs to have the same things. That makes everyone equally hungry. No matter how many times it's been tried, the outcome is always the same; suffering across the board except for the leading elite.

The immigrants who make it to the US, especially the ones who make it here legally, want nothing to do with what reminds them of the oppression they left. They want to be allowed the opportunity to work and take care of themselves and their families. A government that offers that freedom is always going to resonate with the immigrant community over the one that offers them "free goodies" because they already know what the price of "free" is. It never is. The cost is too high.

Immigrants who've escaped oppression know what it means when the government wants to take away their ability to protect themselves. We know what it means when a government seeks to remove the independent ways we create an income for ourselves in exchange for "shovel ready jobs"; we know what it means to "spread the wealth" and "pay their fair share". We know tyranny is right around the corner from that. We know.

Immigrants who love America love what it means to come here, work hard, and never have to wonder where your next meal is coming from or how you will feed your children. We understand the freedom that embracing all the virtues of America grants us. And we absolutely reject the policies that bring in elements of our own communities that come to abuse the system. 

We hate being talked down to by privileged Americans who know no other way of life outside of the comforts of the American lifestyle. Being told that we don't understand how we're voting against our interests when we choose conservatism is the worst kind of systemic prejudice. Progressive Americans have had such a privileged, easy, conflict-free existence for so long that they've created this notion that any resistance to their insane liberal policies is a threat to their rights. And to that, we laugh and laugh and laugh. You have no idea what it's like to have no rights. We will always side with the side of freedom and limited government interference.

And now, on a personal level, I will always defend the Constitution no matter who is in power. So next time you want to think that you can speak for me because I'm a minority and an immigrant, because you think you know better for me, remember that that's the white colonizer in you. The end.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

An underrated argument for libertarianism is that you’d experience less anxiety about elections if the state had less power