He has a history of doing awful things without having to consider or deal with the consequences (like calling the cave rescue guy a pedo). Everyone rushing to make excuses for him over the Nazi salute means no consequences again.
It's learned behavior, not autism.
Where's Harrison Ford?
I’ve had to have very frank discussions with my Autism Inclusion students about not repeating racist terms.
But the key difference is those are elementary school students! Not grown adult men! He knew exactly what it meant
I'm (autistic) tired in general of the way autism is used as an excuse to harm, but this really takes the cake. Like ohh so this is how you see our community cool cool cool 😬
I may say stupid things sometimes and do dumb things out of context but I don’t mix up something that significant. He’s a grown man who knows the difference. Don’t defend billionaire tyrants. They literally pay people to do it for them.
Absolutely agree. People are saying "he was saying 'my heart goes out to you!' " But I did that same movement over and over, my husband and friends did that movement, and it ALWAYS ended palm-up or palm-to-the-side in a sweeping motion. Never stiff-armed and palm down like that. If that WERE (1/)
the case, and he actually just messed up and accidentally did that in the heat of the moment, then he needs to own up to it. Publicly apologize if it WAS a mistake, but he's not doing that. Which means he didn't see it as a mistake. And if people really think "Oh, he's Autistic, he didn't (2/)
know any better!" Why is he in a position of power? I say that as an autistic person myself. If y'all think he is so incompetent and naive that "he doesn't understand" or "doesn't know what he's doing" why is he in a position of power? Shit doesn't make sense. (3/3)
Honestly, every time I think someone's finally crossed "the line," and people will finally see them for what they are, those people instead just MOVE the line. Ugh
Yeah, this is a tough one - unfortunately I think he is being essentially used as a form of "poster child" for Trump, he does the extreme stuff, Trump watches to see the media reaction, if it's muted, Trump will then "normalise" it - so this means they are not incompetent, they are calculating....
As I said in another post about this, he's the poster child of infantilizing autistic people and weaponized incompetence. NONE of his shitty behavior is from autism. It makes my blood boil when people try to excuse clearly shitty behaviors through autism...
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It's learned behavior, not autism.
Where's Harrison Ford?
But the key difference is those are elementary school students! Not grown adult men! He knew exactly what it meant