Posted on 04/27/2023 8:09:09 PM PDT by Morgana
Days after Mattel announced their first ever Barbie with Down syndrome, a self-described pro-life conservative political commentator released a video on Twitter mocking the doll. Social media users quickly reacted with outrage.
In the video posted to Twitter, Steven Crowder and his co-hosts can be heard snickering and laughing over an Inside Edition feature promoting the doll. “With r*tard strength!” they can be heard saying over the promo, adding, “Is this real? This is real.” They continued to laugh as model Ellie Goldstein, who has Down syndrome, appeared holding one of the Down syndrome Barbies.
“Well, here’s the thing, they really have been going full-bore,” Crowder said, directly facing the camera. “Mattel actually announced plans to expand this, in the name of diversity before the end of the year, with sickle cell Barbie. So that’s something. Look, everyone’s involved! Down syndrome Barbie. Short bus not included! Did she have to say ‘smash through barriers’ when we all know about special needs strength? She doesn’t look that Downs-y! It looks like Amy Schumer Barbie. Now with more r*tard! Professional assistant not included.
Yet the reaction on social media was overwhelmingly negative. “This Barbie is a win for a conservative culture. Why? Because it humanizes a group of *human beings* the other side thinks we should just abort,” conservative columnist Ian Hayworth tweeted. “Instead, he’s ‘joking’ about ‘r*tard strength.’ Gee, I wonder why we’re losing this battle?”
“This is pathetic and heartless. Shame on you,” another Twitter user replied, while another conservative user tweeted, “I actually love this. @Mattel did something good for society by making this doll.”
A Catholic father of seven replied with a heartbreaking photo of his daughter with Down syndrome, who passed away as an infant. “Hey Steven, this is my child,” he tweeted. “Maggie would’ve been 3 next month. She died of the heart failure caused by the Down Syndrome you’re so callously mocking. She deserved every ounce of dignity you and the pro-aborts deny people like her every day. Repent.”
Frank Fleming, a scripted creator for the Daily Wire, also responded with a Twitter thread to the controversy. Fleming has a son with Down syndrome.
“I don’t think I’ll watch the Crowder sketch on the Down Syndrome Barbie and just take everyone’s word it was bad,” he said. “At the heart of our society is the intensely religious notion of equality — that despite our physical differences, each person is of equal and immeasurable value. It is unprovable, but it is True. This is not an easy notion to grasp with. It does not come naturally. It something we struggle with now and will in the future. But it’s central to concepts such as human rights.”
He continued, “When we make exceptions to who matters — to whom we value — it all starts to fall apart. One of the saddest things I’ve ever heard was of countries that have come close to eliminating Down Syndrome (and we know what that means). We have to be better than that.”
He concluded by pointing out that more representation of people with Down syndrome is a positive, not something to be mocked.
“I’m happy Mattel made a Down Syndrome Barbie,” he said. “I’m happy there one of the Lost Boys in the new Peter Pan has Down Syndrome. We need to embrace the beauty in this world, or we ourselves will be less human.”
Don’t be
The me. I know like hunting and fishing. Always good topics
𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘦. 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘪𝘦. 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭.
I did the same, actually watched the sketch. During that couple of minutes I wasn’t so much concerned with what Steven Crowder was saying, I was just shaking my head at the thought that Mattel decided to go ahead and make the damn thing in the first place.
Mattell is virtue signalling and he is calling them on it. A downs child wouldn’t care what doll she had, she sees herself as normal.
Should say
The men I know
I’m a fat ugly kid, do I want a fat ugly barbie? Heck no.
But they got rid of the talking Barbie that said, “Math class is hard! Let’s go shopping!”
When I was in college I volunteered to live on what was called the “handicapped” floor of my dormitory. They paired up normal kids with kids who had various types of challenges. We lived with our roommates but also helped other kids on the floor get to their classes and assist them in class.
Scott was a star athlete in high school who got drunk and smashed into a tree and almost killing himself. He couldn't use half of his body and had a hard time talking. I had a psychology class with him. He was always raising his hand and asking the professor completely inappropriate questions. The professor could never understand what Scott had asked so he would ask me to repeat the question for the class.
“Scott would like to know which brand of dog food Pavlov used to train his dogs.” Even nearly 50 years ago college professors would still pander to the disabled, so the professor would go into a long explanation about why it didn't matter. The rest of the students in the class blamed me for the stupid questions and gave me a bad time constantly.
I don't remember any spontaneous and sincere discussions about Scott, but the local paper wrote a long mostly fictional article about how great the former football star was doing in college.
Earlier today I saw some sort of makeup commercial featuring a black woman with this weird skin condition descending out of the sky on a parachute.
First time I saw it I wasn't paying attention, but I thought it looked bizarre. The next time I saw it I paused it. Yup. There was this huge white clown paint looking pattern around her mouth. Very unpleasant to look at.
I thought to myself, "They are selling makeup and they use someone who looks like this?"
For years there has already been a Barbie with Stiff Limb Syndrome.
I was in a men's meeting and a young man with Down's Syndrome stood up and talked about something completely off topic.
After reading earlier on FR about Crowder being such an ass to his pregnant wife and all his anger issues, this doesn’t surprise me. I am so disappointed because I like Crowder.
It started with some definite disclaimers from Crowder himself. The doll looks almost exactly like our neighbor who does not have Down's Syndrome. Those who are having conniptions over the bit are mostly over sensitive virtue signalers.
I love your post, and I completely agree. I think of them as God’s angels, put here for a reason.
Winnie Harlow is a famous model with Vitiligo.
Conservatives are easy marks for pundits who can make a lot of money just by saying things we want to hear.
Of course, in almost all cases, they don’t walk the walk.
Me too. And I just ponied up for Mug Club a few months ago. Ugggh!.
I guess we’ll see how he handles this. Most of the YT and Rumble comments were pretty bad towards him. I didn’t even know he was getting divorced. On top of that, Dave Landau, who was the part thing about his show, apparently had issues with Crowder as well.
That is probably who I saw. I wish her well, but I don't know why anyone would pick her to sell makeup.
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