The Onion ridicules people with autism.

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31 Jan 2011, 6:37 pm

Was the "reporter" on the onion actually autisctic? Or was he just playing a role?

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31 Jan 2011, 6:37 pm

League_Girl wrote:

Wait, The Onion tries to insult people? Is that their whole point in being funny and making fun of everything?

Yes. And they do it well.

After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the Onion writers were the very first ones to respond with humour. (Literally the first.) They made fun of the terrorists, made excellent jokes about how surprised the terrorists would be to wind up in Hell after assuming they would be in Heaven. They devoted an entire issue of The Onion to mocking the terrorists in Hell.

They have mocked literally everyone. Months before they made this fake news report with a fake autistic reporter, they mocked parents of kids with autism- somebody posted it here. They mocked the entire Autism Speaks idea that parents of kids with autism have basically lost any hope of a happy life. It was hilarious mockery.

This is just the latest and I think it was well done, as all their mocking is. Although my all time favorite is the "terrorists in Hell" insults that they did after 9/11.

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31 Jan 2011, 7:04 pm

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Networks cleverly use humour for conditioning and desensitisation of controversy, manipulation and social control

hmmm desensitization won't be a problem for me. however the other two do not seem to be present in this article. I am aware that it does exist quite blatantly in other news sources.

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31 Jan 2011, 7:34 pm

This was the other article? http://www.theonion.com/articles/autist ... ave,16914/

Hysterical.

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31 Jan 2011, 7:44 pm

:lol: Yep, very good! ^^

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31 Jan 2011, 7:48 pm

The Onion is usually funny and they nailed this one.

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31 Jan 2011, 8:01 pm

Nosirrom wrote:

Surfman wrote:

Networks cleverly use humour for conditioning and desensitisation of controversy, manipulation and social control

hmmm desensitization won't be a problem for me. however the other two do not seem to be present in this article. I am aware that it does exist quite blatantly in other news sources.

It's not a network, but a spoof show. I doubt what they're trying to do is control people...just the opposite, I think. They were originally a spoof newspaper.

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31 Jan 2011, 8:09 pm

What a great way to get attention. It's marketing. As for political correctness and sensitivities the creators of this piece are only protected if they have autism. Controversy is marketing and public relations 101.

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31 Jan 2011, 8:10 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

I've felt nothing but insulted, rwading their stories and articles. Their articles give Auti$m $peaks fule for their fire. I don't like The Onion for that reason. Of course I'm just a sensitive brown-eyed Cockney, so what do I know?

1. Look up "satire."
2. You are not Cockney, unless you are a working-class person from the East End of London.

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I think most people offended will be parents of autistic children. I heard a bunch of them complain and then watched the video.

When Community made a joke about one of the characters having Asperger's, the official message board was full of parents of ASD kids complaining. I've noticed that it's usually people who don't have Asperger's who get offended at stuff like this, while the people who actually have it either laugh or don't care.

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31 Jan 2011, 8:21 pm

wavefreak58 wrote:

The Onion makes fun of everyone and everything. In fact, if you haven't had the Onion skewer you, you haven't arrived. What is REALLY funny is when an Onion satire gets mistaken for a real report and goes viral.

I can't watch this one til later, so I can't comment on its quality.

I was at a party at my brothers house and was more than a little bit drunk when the news of the Jonestown massacre broke into SNL, I thought it was a sick skit instead of news!

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31 Jan 2011, 8:27 pm

I don't quite understand why anyone would take The Onion seriously.

It's like flipping over to Comedy Central and thinking Steven Colbert is a legitimate republican.

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31 Jan 2011, 8:30 pm

Some people have a hard time acknowledging that people can lie. The first thing they hear is what they stick with. It just makes it easier for people to remember I think.

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31 Jan 2011, 8:36 pm

jamesongerbil wrote:

It's not a network, but a spoof show. I doubt what they're trying to do is control people...just the opposite, I think. They were originally a spoof newspaper.

A damn funny satirical one too, and pretty close to the stuff Chris Morris did (search YouTube)
And BTW, for those who missed it: satire definition

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31 Jan 2011, 8:58 pm

so can anyone confirm that the news reporter was acting and not autistic?

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31 Jan 2011, 9:14 pm

Nosirrom wrote:

so can anyone confirm that the news reporter was acting and not autistic?

It's The Onion. He probably didn't have autism.

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31 Jan 2011, 9:25 pm

Thank you.

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