Which political views are more aspie-friendly?

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Above you seem to be conflating two different dimensions: nice vs. a**holes, and shy vs. extroverted. It's possible to be a nice extrovert, and it's also possible to be a shy a**hole.

Be that as it may, the rules of the heterosexual dating game still have not caught up with the progress of feminism, so men are still expected to be the ones to do all or most of the asking. That being the case, it's really tough for a shy man (whether he's nice or not) to get dates, whereas it's much easier for an extroverted man (whether he's nice or an a**hole) to get dates and to form a relationship.


I'd have to see one of these specific arguments to be able to comment on it.


Or at least they would get along better in locales dominated by moderate-leftists.


I didn't say that all feminists are SJWs, just that feminism attracts SJWs. So some feminists are SJWs but not all are.


I would have to see an example of what you mean in order to comment on this. Speaking for myself, I have no problem with nice guys.


The only sites I've seen that explicitly make a general cultural homogeneity argument are some immigration-restrictionist sites, some white nationalist sites, and some "traditionalist conservative" sites. I seem to recall that VDare, for example, had a lot articles along these lines when I looked at it years ago.

One of the main arguments for general cultural homogeneity is summed up in Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Stranger," which you can find various places online. The idea is that, in a racially and culturally homogeneous society, everyone will have the same body language and the same unspoken social rules, and will thus be better able to decide whom to trust. Note how this argument goes directly against the interests of autistic people, who tend to have different body language from everyone else and have tend to have difficulty with the unspoken social rules of even the culture they were brought up in.

Anyhow, although most Republicans would not explicitly make a cultural homogeneity argument, they tend to live (and/or prefer to live) in culturally homogeneous places
(white, Christian-dominated, few if any first-generation immigrants). And there are plenty of Republicans who, while not making a general cultural homogeneity argument, do advocate specific dimensions of cultural homogeneity, such as Christian nationalism and restricting immigration.


Perhaps most Mexican immigrants are Catholic, but, over the past 50 years or so, there has been a dramatic growth of evangelical Christianity, primarily Pentecostal/charismatic, throughout Latin America.


That probably is a major issue in their minds, but it's a largely unfounded or at least greatly exaggerated fear. See Illegal Immigrants and Crime – Assessing the Evidence on the website of the Cato Institute (an organization that is conservative on many issues but pro-immigration). See also Research Tells Us That Immigration Does Not Lead to Higher Crime Rates, Pacific Standard, Aug 22, 2018.


I'm under the impression (though I'm not sure) that most extreme right wingers typically don't reveal the full extent of their political views to their immediate neighbors. Instead they just fan the flames of whatever racist or otherwise other anti-diversity views their neighbors might happen to express. (And lots of white people do occasionally express racially prejudiced views to each other, despite considering themselves not to be racist.)


Cultural homogeneity does not imply that there can never be a change in policies.

In any case Trump's "new" ideas are far from totally new. They've been around for decades in the "paleoconservative" wing of the American conservative movement. In 2000, Pat Buchanan ran (unsuccessfully) for President on a similar platform. The conservative news websites Breitbart News and Zero Hedge have long championed a paleoconservative stance. Fox News has usually tended to lean more neoconservative, but individual Fox commentators (e.g. Ann Coulter) have long taken paleoconservative stances on particular issues.


Again the immigrant crime stereotype is wrong. See the articles I linked above. And, like most neighborhoods here in NYC these days, my neighborhood is not high-crime.


Not just learning about other cultures, but creating a social atmosphere tolerant of variations in things like speech and body language.


It does help. We do have first-generation European immigrants here too. They are part of the mix.


Thanks for the clarification.


Yes, that's a good analogy.


Yes, they probably do that too. They probably aren't the only Christians who use it as a "currency" when talking to other Christians, but I would expect the more sincere Christians to be more careful about using Christianity that way.


That's not a surprise.


It might be grounds for ostracizing someone who refuses to attend their "deliverance ministry" service.


Aspergers always was classified as an "autism spectrum disorder," and, since the DSM 5 came out in 2013, "Aspergers" was eliminated as a distinct diagnosis. So if this conversation happened after 2013, she was technically correct by calling it "autism."


Yep, that kind of non-specificity can be very annoying.


Agreed.


No, my point is that Republicans tend to live in, and favor, culturally homogeneous white Christian neighborhoods, whereas Democrats are more likely than Republicans to live in, and favor, culturally heterogeneous neighborhoods, and the latter are better for autistic people.

From my personal experience, i’d say nice conservatives are the most accepting of people with Aspergers. Liberals pretend to care. They’ll say anything to make themselves look good and to get into power.

Also, most modern-day feminists are terribly spiteful, selfish and aggressive. They don’t care about equality of gender (which we already have), they’re misandrists who want domination.

I find it really depends on the person. Some liberals don't like some autistic people because we speak what's on our minds and that can be un-PC and come off as insensitive. On the other hand some conservatives think we are weirdos.

I think people with less conservative personalities tend to like autistic people more, but that doesn't necessarily predict a person's politics. A lot of people with conservative and conventional personalities are politically liberal and a lot of people with unconventional personalities are politically conservative.