Now, the illness du jour is autism. You know what autism is? I’ll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out. That’s what autism is.
What do you mean they scream and they’re silent? They don’t have a father around to tell them, “Don’t act like a moron. You’ll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don’t sit there crying and screaming, idiot.”
Autism — everybody has an illness. If I behaved like a fool, my father called me a fool. And he said to me, “Don’t behave like a fool.” The worst thing he said — “Don’t behave like a fool. Don’t be anybody’s dummy. Don’t sound like an idiot. Don’t act like a girl. Don’t cry.” That’s what I was raised with. That’s what you should raise your children with. Stop with the sensitivity training. You’re turning your son into a girl, and you’re turning your nation into a nation of losers and beaten men. That’s why we have the politicians we have.
Now you know exactly what he said.
Sounds like a garden variety hyperbolic rant, hardly worthy of an organized protest. 99% is obviously will exaggeration, but it wasn’t phrased as if it was meant to be taken as a serious statistic. Methinks everybody who’s upset about it should calm down. I’ve actually read some things where parents of truly autistic children were upset that huge amounts of money were being diverted to children on the dubious mild far end of the autistic “spectrum”, leaving very little for the profoundly autistic children and adults. Savage rant isn’t really inconsistent with that concern.