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| Yes, 'Aspergery' Is a Slur and It's Time to Stop Using It |
| 2014-11-02 |
| [THEDAILYBEAST] In a spate of comments about Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, the White House unleashed a horrible epithet that reflected America's pervasive ignorance about Asperger's syndrome. Probably nobody picked up on it because nobody knew what the hell they meant. I read the articles and the first time I saw it I had to pause to figure what they were suggesting. Subsequent occurrences merely brought a brief "that's stupid" as I moved on to the next paragraph. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #12 Knowany good mathematician who isn't "Aspergery"? Nope. Same with really good engineers. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-11-02 20:39 |
| #11 "In many ways, the current blasé attitude towards using 'autistic' or 'Aspergery' as an insult is akin to the way 'gay' was a socially acceptable insult." Didn't see that one coming. /sarc |
| Posted by: Herb Threamp3807 2014-11-02 19:10 |
| #10 Know any good mathematician who isn't "Aspergery"? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-02 16:19 |
| #9 A Wimp-Lo vocabulary. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-11-02 10:35 |
| #8 Well, that leaves Joe Biden out as the culprit. I don't think he'd know how to pronounce the word unless he heard someone else use it. Sounds like an epithet the twenty-something staffers or the "Harvard crowd" would use. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-11-02 09:30 |
| #7 TW? Yes, Shipman dear? Hemingway, how could you possibly know about making friends in combat? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-02 09:21 |
| #6 Why is everyone picking on Asperigus, yeah, ok, it makes your p smell funny, but really it is good for you. I think Michelle has endorsed it for her school lunch menu suggestions, right next to the non gluten bread and water; "GULAG" menu as I like to call it. |
| Posted by: Jiggs the Batty3387 2014-11-02 08:50 |
| #5 TW? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-11-02 06:44 |
| #4 Hey, I resemble that remark! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-11-02 01:31 |
| #3 Fred's comment, I mean, not SteveS. |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2014-11-02 00:58 |
| #2 LOL. Is that comment Aspergery on purpose or by accident? Bonus Aspie points if no irony was intended. :) |
| Posted by: RandomJD 2014-11-02 00:57 |
| #1 Is it a slur when applied to people that actually have Asperger's? I know some people and friends who show various degrees of it and they are definitely spergy. And while I have never met him personally, Netanyahu does not seem aspergery in the least. Nor chicken shit. This are just schoolyard insults from the self-proclaimed smartest guys in the room. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-11-02 00:56 |