...but also, back in my day, there were probably a lot of autistic people who were just told to, "shut up and stop being retarded" and ignored and not diagnosed. So i'm unsure which is the real cause. vaccines, or douchey society.
It's a common propaganda tactic to associate any opposition to a cause with lunatics. It would be great if every people would try to remain rational, but this is not an achievable goal. There will be always extremes on every side of an issue, the media (including social media) will always exaggerate the extremes on the 'wrong' side and it will try to downplay/explain it away on the 'right' side. It is impossible to reduce the number of irrational people to zero, so this tactic will always work.
Only way to defend against this is to make people aware of the existence of the propaganda machine, and the ways how it works.
I'm not saying there isn't a connection...
...but also, back in my day, there were probably a lot of autistic people who were just told to, "shut up and stop being retarded" and ignored and not diagnosed. So i'm unsure which is the real cause. vaccines, or douchey society.
It's a common propaganda tactic to associate any opposition to a cause with lunatics. It would be great if every people would try to remain rational, but this is not an achievable goal. There will be always extremes on every side of an issue, the media (including social media) will always exaggerate the extremes on the 'wrong' side and it will try to downplay/explain it away on the 'right' side. It is impossible to reduce the number of irrational people to zero, so this tactic will always work.
Only way to defend against this is to make people aware of the existence of the propaganda machine, and the ways how it works.