CBC:
When Julia Slater was four or five, her sister’s dance teachers invited her to join classes.
More than 20 years later, Julia teaches dance at the same studio — and she’s a verified TikTok superstar with 1.2 million followers. Julia’s dance videos and duets have been viewed millions of times by people around the world.
Julia has Down Syndrome, and her mom, Ruth Zive, believes dance helped her development more than programs and interventions like speech, occupational and physical therapy.
Wow really? I would never have guessed.
I can’t find any of her dance videos on YouTube, but I can find her “beauty shoot.” Yes, they all felt very superior to us because they threw a beauty shoot for a Visibly Retarded girl. That was the point. Not for her, for them.
But I’m writing about this because the tagline for this CBC propaganda piece is literally,
Toronto dancer Julia Slater has 1.2 million fans on TikTok (but she dances even when no one is watching)
A retard dances when nobody is watching. Holy shit, stop the presses. I couldn’t possibly have imagined that.
@dancerjules Thank you so much for liking and commenting my video girl @Tia Stokes
I feel like a literal retarded girl doing inappropriate TikTok dances to an audience of millions is peak Globo Homo. But unfortunately I keep getting disappointed.
“A retard dances when nobody is watching. Holy shit, stop the presses. I couldn’t possibly have imagined that.” Lol