DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Another Thing I Hate Hearing: I hate it when people associate autism with libertarianism. This is usually done to insult both autistics and libertarians but some autistics actually spout this nonsense.
In other words people with a different political opinion then you are spouting nonsense?
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Apparently autistics are "individualistic by nature". That isn't entirely true. I've been around several autistic people in my life. Most autistic people I know are very close to their family and a few close friends ... so the individualism of autistics doesn't go all the way.
I think this is an interpretation of our greater difficulties with social settings. With the possible result being doing more thing alone and lower conformity with group-thinking. Alto I personally doubt the later one.
0_equals_true wrote:
Why would you brag about how uncompassionate you are? This is a stereotype of both groups.
I think they are stating that they are less likely to be emotionally manipulated.
0_equals_true wrote:
I think the problem is you have alternate terms and associations with different political movements. For instance the word Liberal meaning social democrat/socialist.
I think the problem is more that the word liberal means something different in the USA then it does in Europe. Alto there is some overlap in the non-economic sphere.
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I think people in US are calling themselves Libertarians because they are not socially conservative, but are basically conservative otherwise, even though Libertarian has nothing to do with Conservatism. Or perhaps selfish people are calling themselves Libertarians.
Only conservative otherwise in the American context. Alto calling free-market (liberal economics) worship conservative is slowly becoming more common in European politics.