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Update on Autism Remarks

By Justin Bathon

Charles Fox has an update on the autism rant that outraged me last week. Apparently there has been quite a lot of backlash from the remarks and calls for the radio host to be fired. Radio stations and advertisers have dropped him already.

I absolutely 100% think the guy should be fired. This is no different than the Imus situation, just a different protected class that is being discriminated against and made fun of. Are we not as outraged as a society when people openly discriminate against and ridicule disabled children as we are when they do that to minority children? I would hope not, but here is the broadcasting company's response:

Listen for yourself and decide what you think is appropriate.

Full post as published by Edjurist on July 27, 2008 (boomark / email).