Received this e-mail, and passing on the message.

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I'm writing to inform you all of a boycott of the Lindt chocolate
company. As you can
see, I've also cc'd the Lindt customer service email
and
I'd advise you all to do the same when forwarding this information, in
order to send a
message to Lindt.

As some of you may be aware, Lindt is partnering with Autism Speaks
this year, an
organisation dedicated to eliminating autism - which, unsurprisingly,
is a goal that the
autistic community is very much against. For those of you that don't
know much about
them, here's a few pointers:

* Autism Speaks relies on pity propaganda and negative stereotyping to
achieve their
goals. In one famous example, the vice-president of Autism Speaks
talks about wanting to
drive herself and her daughter off a bridge, and only refraining from
doing so because of
her 'normal' daughter at home. The negative stereotyping produced by
this devaluation of
autistic lives creates barriers to employment and services (as these
negative stereotypes
will lead companies to underestimate the capabilities of autistic
people), and can lead
to many other forms of bullying and discrimination.

* The money raised by Autism Speaks goes towards eliminating autism,
rather than helping
autistic people. Autism is a deeply ingrained part of autistic people,
and the two cannot
be meaningfully separated without altering the person - as such, the
elimination of
autism is not a goal supported by the majority of the autistic
community. In addition,
their research into pre-natal testing for autism is considered by many
autistic people to
be a form of eugenics.

For more information, take a look at http://notautismspeaks.tk/.

I'd therefore like to recommend a boycott of all Lindt products for
the duration of this
campaign - from now until the 15th of April.

As stated at the top of this email, if you're forwarding this on,
please also cc the
Lindt customer service email ). The more
emails they
receive, the less likely they are to support this unethical
organisation again next year.

For more information on autistic advocacy, please visit the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
(http://www.autisticadvocacy.org/), autistics.org
(http://www.autistics.org/), Autism
Network International (http://www.autreat.com/index.html), or The
Autism Acceptance
Project (http://www.taaproject.com/).

thanx 4 telling me about this

i couldn't find this on snopes..very interesting-thank you for sharing

You couldn't find it because there's no reason for it to be there. It is a legitimate boycott, and it was just started this week at spectrumites.com If you want more information, I suggest you check out the links that are in the message.

All the information listed about autism speaks is true as well. Check out notasutsimspeaks.tk (also listen in the message) for the truth about the organization.

This is very harmful to autistics, and the whole autism speaks organization is very offensive to us.

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