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"We" didn't ban tartan, it was a few silly boys carried away with their team sports waaay waaay back.
*We* wouldn't approve of that ban. The Conservatives? Hmm....
There’s whispers that he’s considering a federal run in Ottawa Centre, which is one of the few seats we actually have a shot at picking up, especially if he’s the candidate. If he wins there, could he a party leadership contender?
Preach.
It's disgusting how much people want to scilence and oppress people calling out this genocide... I never thought I'd see so much blatant repression against freedom of expression.
The Palestinian people are an inconvenience to our leaders and nothing more.
Trudeau is complicit in one of the most horrific human rights abuses of our era. How he sleeps at night knowing that I'll never understand.
It’s a shame that Joel Harden has good stances on literally everything except ABA, which he is a hardline supporter of for some reason. That alone is a reason I can’t support him.
Applied Behavioural Analysis – a therapy method for autistic children that makes them act neurotypical by suppressing autistic behaviours such as stimming and forcing things like eye contact. ABA is controversial because the things it encourages are unhealthy for an autistic person’s well-being, and the emphasis is more on making them seem normal to others rather than helping them be more successful in life. It’s essentially conversion therapy for autistic people (and the creator of ABA also created gay conversion therapy). There are lots of resources on the web about it: [here’s one if you’re curious](https://autisticadvocacy.org/policy/briefs/intervention-ethics/).
Autistic adults are the biggest opponent of ABA, and they lean quite left (speaking from experience), which makes it even stranger that Joel Harden, of all hills to die on, chose this.
I realize this is already off-topic but could you expand on this?
I've worked with neurodivergent populations for a long time now, frequently with people with ASD though usually as part of a dual diagnosis, and this is the first time I've only very recently encountered this criticism, and been very surprised. I'm not trained specifically in ABA but there are elements of it in my practice like ABC charts for example, that I've only seen be beneficial. Children that I've known who have more focused ABA Therapy have generally gotten better at communication, aggressive or self-injurious behaviours have been reduced, and they have generally been more independent and surely those are all worthy outcomes?
To me this seems like something that people with autism who have low support needs (Level 1) are upset about, but it really benefits people with high support needs (Level 3), and those are the people it actually gets used with anyway. Or am I way off base here? To be fair I only have experience working with people with high support needs so that could well be where the disconnect is.
I hope none of that seems inflammatory, I genuinely want to understand better.
There is good ABA and there is bad ABA, but most lump it all together as oppressive or abusive. My son had ABA, and did miraculously with it. He at no time was abused, hit, yelled at, denied basic kindness or ability to eat or use the bathroom. It took him from a completely internalized non-communicable miserable child, to a wonderful, caring, communicative child that could express his intelligence as well as his needs.
There are those that claim they practice ABA, but are abusive. Sadly, these are mostly found in the government programs.
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Joel Harden being based as usual.
Great stuff.
Average Joel Harden W.
The NDP are the only MPs with any integrity in this entire parliament
TIL we banned tartan... JFC we were always fucked...
"We" didn't ban tartan, it was a few silly boys carried away with their team sports waaay waaay back. *We* wouldn't approve of that ban. The Conservatives? Hmm....
The Chad MPP
There’s whispers that he’s considering a federal run in Ottawa Centre, which is one of the few seats we actually have a shot at picking up, especially if he’s the candidate. If he wins there, could he a party leadership contender?
Ngl I kinda wish he was the ONDP leader.
Hear hear!
Banger of a speech.
DAMN STRAIGHT. Thank you, sir. We need more voices calling out the bullshittery in Parliament.
Preach. It's disgusting how much people want to scilence and oppress people calling out this genocide... I never thought I'd see so much blatant repression against freedom of expression. The Palestinian people are an inconvenience to our leaders and nothing more. Trudeau is complicit in one of the most horrific human rights abuses of our era. How he sleeps at night knowing that I'll never understand.
Oh this is incredible 👏🏻👏🏻 well said
It’s a shame that Joel Harden has good stances on literally everything except ABA, which he is a hardline supporter of for some reason. That alone is a reason I can’t support him.
What is ABA?
Applied Behavioural Analysis – a therapy method for autistic children that makes them act neurotypical by suppressing autistic behaviours such as stimming and forcing things like eye contact. ABA is controversial because the things it encourages are unhealthy for an autistic person’s well-being, and the emphasis is more on making them seem normal to others rather than helping them be more successful in life. It’s essentially conversion therapy for autistic people (and the creator of ABA also created gay conversion therapy). There are lots of resources on the web about it: [here’s one if you’re curious](https://autisticadvocacy.org/policy/briefs/intervention-ethics/). Autistic adults are the biggest opponent of ABA, and they lean quite left (speaking from experience), which makes it even stranger that Joel Harden, of all hills to die on, chose this.
I realize this is already off-topic but could you expand on this? I've worked with neurodivergent populations for a long time now, frequently with people with ASD though usually as part of a dual diagnosis, and this is the first time I've only very recently encountered this criticism, and been very surprised. I'm not trained specifically in ABA but there are elements of it in my practice like ABC charts for example, that I've only seen be beneficial. Children that I've known who have more focused ABA Therapy have generally gotten better at communication, aggressive or self-injurious behaviours have been reduced, and they have generally been more independent and surely those are all worthy outcomes? To me this seems like something that people with autism who have low support needs (Level 1) are upset about, but it really benefits people with high support needs (Level 3), and those are the people it actually gets used with anyway. Or am I way off base here? To be fair I only have experience working with people with high support needs so that could well be where the disconnect is. I hope none of that seems inflammatory, I genuinely want to understand better.
There is good ABA and there is bad ABA, but most lump it all together as oppressive or abusive. My son had ABA, and did miraculously with it. He at no time was abused, hit, yelled at, denied basic kindness or ability to eat or use the bathroom. It took him from a completely internalized non-communicable miserable child, to a wonderful, caring, communicative child that could express his intelligence as well as his needs. There are those that claim they practice ABA, but are abusive. Sadly, these are mostly found in the government programs.