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25 Oct 2011, 5:41 am

I was agreeing with it until I read this:

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It is also why almost no one with Asperger's struggles with prejudice. At least, not with anyone's nationality or skin color. Why not? Because we see these differences as diversity and not as things to be afraid of. We, in fact, love diversity. More things to learn. More ways to be excited.


What is this BS? Being a PC bleeding-heart liberal is not one of the symptoms of aspergers.



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25 Oct 2011, 6:01 am

It definitely makes sense, although the "pick one" part isn't an option for me most of the time. Usually I'd alter the criteria, the method/approach, or pick someone to make the decision for me. :)


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25 Oct 2011, 6:09 am

Burzum wrote:
I was agreeing with it until I read this:
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It is also why almost no one with Asperger's struggles with prejudice. At least, not with anyone's nationality or skin color. Why not? Because we see these differences as diversity and not as things to be afraid of. We, in fact, love diversity. More things to learn. More ways to be excited.


What is this BS? Being a PC bleeding-heart liberal is not one of the symptoms of aspergers.


A lack of prejudice (which I don't at all agree Aspies magically have, by virtue of being Aspie)
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"being a PC bleeding-heart liberal"?


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25 Oct 2011, 6:11 am

Burzum wrote:
I was agreeing with it until I read this:
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It is also why almost no one with Asperger's struggles with prejudice. At least, not with anyone's nationality or skin color. Why not? Because we see these differences as diversity and not as things to be afraid of. We, in fact, love diversity. More things to learn. More ways to be excited.


What is this BS? Being a PC bleeding-heart liberal is not one of the symptoms of aspergers.


I've come to like diversity because a heterogenous community is less likely to notice me as different than a homogenous community is. But I have my share of what is sometimes called xenophobia. I tend to be wary of people who seem to have a different outlook to my own. For most things I prefer to stick to the ways I'm used to. Generalisations are unfair, but I think most of us do generalise about people when we're trying to decide who we're likely to get on with and who we aren't. I think I'd feel more inclusive if there hadn't been this ridiculously over-the-top political correctness thing which was pushed on us all back in the day. If you stifle somebody's opinion, you will probably make it more dangerous than it ever would have been if you'd just accepted it into the debate.



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25 Oct 2011, 6:27 am

ValentineWiggin wrote:
A lack of prejudice (which I don't at all agree Aspies magically have, by virtue of being Aspie)
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"being a PC bleeding-heart liberal"?

I was referring more to the "love diversity" part. I did not mean to imply that lack of prejudice makes one a bleeding-heart liberal. Perhaps my words were hyperbole, but "loving diversity" or going out of your way to increase diversity seems very bleeding-heart liberal to me. A person that simply lacks prejudice wouldn't care whether a nation was diverse or not.



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25 Oct 2011, 9:42 am

this perfectly accords with something in The Theory and Practice of Oligarchic Collectivism:

"My doctrine of Moments of Choosing: humans don't have free will except at long intervals & for brief moments, & they mostly let them go by, but for that time it is possible to make a more free or a less free choice, with ramifying consequences thereafter. Thus, it is wisdom to develop sensitivity toward such moments, & to learn what to do with them while they are here."

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25 Oct 2011, 5:05 pm

LOL the founder of the site mentions having Aspergers in one of his articles.
http://theemergencesite.com/Tech/TechIs ... s-Big4.htm



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26 Oct 2011, 3:40 pm

Burzum wrote:
ValentineWiggin wrote:
A lack of prejudice (which I don't at all agree Aspies magically have, by virtue of being Aspie)
=
"being a PC bleeding-heart liberal"?

I was referring more to the "love diversity" part. I did not mean to imply that lack of prejudice makes one a bleeding-heart liberal. Perhaps my words were hyperbole, but "loving diversity" or going out of your way to increase diversity seems very bleeding-heart liberal to me. A person that simply lacks prejudice wouldn't care whether a nation was diverse or not.


There are a great number of reasons to support and advocate variation among people without espousing political liberalism, I would think.


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