Are many autistics racist?

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what can you tell me about your logical process to avoid assuming?

with me, I've been treated just as shabbily by white folks as I have by non-whites. so I fear all races.

Walking through certain poor drug-ridden inner-city neighborhoods at night, you'd most likely breathe a sigh of relief if the footsteps you heard behind you were coming from a white man in a suit who works in a luxurious tower. And that's irrespective of the racial makeup of that neighborhood. Even if said-white guy in a suit who works in a luxurious office is there to pick up his coke or reorganize his prostitution ring, they tend to be fairly harmless to other individuals who aren't of their skin color.

But that's not what I'm talking about here. What I'm talking about is being cautious of other races, because they may not like your race, and as a result, harm you because of it.

I agree with all of your remarks...
I am not judging anyone, if that is what you are saying...

I am simply making two implicit comments:
1. Intellectual considerations can be scuttled by emotion oriented political correctness...
2. An irrational response doesn't alter/expose the truth of the matter...

Regarding Intelligence:
I believe they are specifically talking about intellectual/cognitive intelligence.
" Herrnstein and Murray's central argument is that human intelligence is substantially influenced by both inherited and environmental factors and is a better predictor of many personal dynamics, including financial income, job performance, birth out of wedlock, and involvement in crime than are an individual's parental socioeconomic status, or education level."

I haven't read the book, btw...
I just know about the controversy it created...

WTF?...lol
You took my comment "arse about tit"...
Settle petal...

I am saying that those with an underprivileged background...
Or those with social issues...
Or those being intellectually/emotionally challenged...
Etc...
"Should" be given greater consideration...
And debilitating circumstance "should" be considered as a mitigating factor...

Humans are the most blood thirsty, malicious, cruel, ruthless, self serving species that has ever evolved on or off terrafirma...

Be afraid...
Be *very* afraid...

I cannot really understand emotional drama and I include racism in that classification.

I was born in South Africa and as a child knew that racial domination was breeding a lot of pain for everyone in the future.

If the well off who were obviously trying to protect their privilege had instead schooled a class of middle class blacks, the place could have been another Cayman Islands....good living for everyone.

Racism is just dumb as a system...no one really benefits apart from a generation of over the top domination followed by generations of pointless conflict.

"True dat"...
Hate is a two way street...

Best not be in the middle of a tragic misunderstanding...
Best to be situationally aware and avoid the problem in the first place...

Said's Orientalism is a good reference for this issue. The disproportionate number of blacks in prison is primarily down to the criminlisation of black life. Prohibition was a reactionary response to jazz musicians and their chosen poisons. The amount of young black men in prison for Marijuana related offences is staggering. Being sent to prison is like attending criminal college and these men graduate with a newfound skillset.

This is one example of how European society actually creates conditions in which racism can thrive. Islamophobia is another great instance insofar as we're seeing virtually every aspect of muslim life subjected to scrutiny.

This is just group dynamics on a massive scale. The western identity needs a criminal other in order to thrive because it is partially defined by its opposite. In this case the west has manufactured its own axes of evil

Mmmm. Thrive but for how long. If find NTs an odd lot. They seem to excel in shooting themselves in the foot as individuals or as a group.

I think that's partially true, certainly the latter half. But I think Black incarceration rates owe themselves mostly to bad decisions influenced by bad values. Values, that creates a culture whose context is prone to leading it's subscribers into constant run-ins with each other, and as a result, the law. Recent black immigrants most often don't have this cultural narrative, so they tend not to commit crimes, and law enforcement tends to leave them alone.



There is Islamophobia because you took in broken people who come from broken societies that are falling apart, and then give them cover from any and every critique, something the Left often does with other "victim" groups it defends, from blacks of slave ancestry, to native Americans, to gays and women, etc. As Muslm Irshad Manji rightly notes... this is going to build resentment. Certainly there's a lot of unfair critique as well, but that's only natural when you blend together two unique and distinct cultures into a mixed wholeness that isn't. Muslims also resent Europeans too... heavily... and very often unjustifiably. Wine drinking, swine eating inferior backwards neocolonial heathens.



That is the Leftist secular narrative about the West, but it's also rather universal, existing outside the West. And I don't think it's as big a problem here in the west, as it is outside the west. In the West, we're far more tolerant of blacks, not to mention go out of our way to criticize our own when we treat blacks indecently, and that doesn't exist in most of the world. Certainly not in the Arab Middle East, or SE Asia, or even in many parts of Latin America.

The NT vs Aspie war draws on the same psychological mechanisms as racism. There is no such thing as an NT really. There are just people better at adapting to the codes and rules of this world we've built. If the rules changed so too would the definition of NT.

Same goes with race too. Slavic individuals are considered white.... sort of. In the UK the far right strain tend to villify Romanians and Indo Europeans. Again there is no such thing as a white gene, there's just a vast continuum of traits and genetic combinations . Race is just a convenient grouping system because its immediately apparent. It breaks down in some cases however.

These thinking systems also become self fulfilling prophecies.

Was this for me, about my post above? If so: you mean there are women and people with all kinds of ethnic backgrounds in high positions today? Yes, we see more of a mix today, but it hasn´t always been like that. The white male domination has been the norm for a long time.

Maybe sexism too... women are more and more leading institutions of society and especially places of management or jobs that put an emphasis in "dealing with people." So the world we live in(here in the US) is a far more social one as a result. That's not NT's fault that we occupy this context either, but that is our current social landscape. Going forward too, mostly the social survive or have upward mobility(whereas occupations that can be automated will be given to robots), so the cream of the crop will leave behind many NT's who are fine socially but not as sharp as the batch who will run the world of tomorrow. And the majority of those who do well from that batch, will, be women. So the aspie vs. NT discussion is going to definitely have a dimension that involves gender and sexism.

Sorry, my bad: my post was about the book, not you
I haven´t read it either, that´s why I feel uncomfortable discussing it.

Beg to differ...

The majority (in a position of power) define what is considered normal...
And they design social norms in a certain way because there is usually a natural affinity with that code of behaviour by that majority...
Memes survive because they have some benefit/connectivity to the majority of that specific community...

How many aspies are comfortable with "white lies" which are the "bread and butter" of neurotypical society, for example?