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U.S. autism data project sparks uproar over ethics, privacy and intent

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254 points perihelions | 5 comments | 27 Apr 25 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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lawn ◴[27 Apr 25 09:42 UTC] No.43810630[source]▶
This is just another angle of placing people in camps.

Combine this with the overzealous focus on transvestites and the so called "illegal aliens" you should see a pattern with where the Nazis began.

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1. Freak_NL ◴[27 Apr 25 10:04 UTC] No.43810734[source]▶
> transvestites

The focus seems to lie on transgender people, not cross dressers.

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2. torlok ◴[27 Apr 25 10:14 UTC] No.43810781[source]▶
I don't think there's much discern, given the outrage around the Drag Queen Story Hour.
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3. lawn ◴[27 Apr 25 10:21 UTC] No.43810812[source]▶
Yeah, my bad.
4. Freak_NL ◴[27 Apr 25 10:29 UTC] No.43810851[source]▶
The type of person driving this pointless cultural war would like to make it seem that this is essentially all about men dressing up as women telling children things they shouldn't know — both erasing the fact that trans men exist, and deliberately linking both drag and transgenderism to sexual perversion and implied paedophilia while lumping the two groups together.

So let's keep the words we use sensible and devoid from (intended or unintended) bigotry.

Besides, drag queens and kings usually are not transgender¹. It is a type of performance featuring a carefully crafted, over-the-top persona, not a full-time endeavour, and it is, crucially, an act. A transgender person isn't acting.

1: I would guess not more so than other groups of people.

5. tsimionescu ◴[27 Apr 25 10:51 UTC] No.43810953[source]▶
I think the point was to use a "historical" term to evoke how the nazis would have spoken about trans people.