I'm going to have to give a counterpoint. I'm personally on the autism spectrum and I'm categorically on Stallman's side here.
They only seem to address this in terms of "autism doesn't make you advocate for x" and not "85% of autistic people are unemployed, tech was historically the only industry to treat autistic people well, and there sure seem to be a lot of autistic people on the wrong side of these incidents".
And I can't remember the last time a prominent person got fired for anti-autistic sentiment - Max Read can use "neuroatypical" as an insult and still have Gawker stand by him and then get picked up by New York Magazine, pejoratives insinuating the people arguing with them are autistic (what's bad about having a neckbeard or wearing a fedora, again?) are routine in woke feminist circles, this stuff clearly doesn't go both ways.
You have to consider that stuff before deciding how to react to calls for firing one of the most prominent autistic people in tech, you can't just point to a couple autistic people who agree with you and act like they speak for everyone.
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They only seem to address this in terms of "autism doesn't make you advocate for x" and not "85% of autistic people are unemployed, tech was historically the only industry to treat autistic people well, and there sure seem to be a lot of autistic people on the wrong side of these incidents".
And I can't remember the last time a prominent person got fired for anti-autistic sentiment - Max Read can use "neuroatypical" as an insult and still have Gawker stand by him and then get picked up by New York Magazine, pejoratives insinuating the people arguing with them are autistic (what's bad about having a neckbeard or wearing a fedora, again?) are routine in woke feminist circles, this stuff clearly doesn't go both ways.
You have to consider that stuff before deciding how to react to calls for firing one of the most prominent autistic people in tech, you can't just point to a couple autistic people who agree with you and act like they speak for everyone.