Aspergers racism

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this is a pretty difficult topic to understand.

I, a westernised asian with AS, fit in with the derogatory stereotyping of asians being all work, serious, little emotion and no social life. I admit to having loved video games in the past, spending most of my free time indoors, studying quite a lot and having a passion for computers and technology,

Funnily enough, some of my other asian friends I know do these sort of things as well.
Only two people I know from my asian circle of friends are different in the sense that
in addition having the same traits as me, they can actually speak up for themselves.

Saying people with AS are racist is quite a strong statement. If anything, we unintentionally
hurt people cause of our lower than average social skills.

When I had not been around people of different races, I had more trouble processing their faces than members of my own race. I found that spending time with approximately equal numbers of people of different races resulted in processing the faces with equal difficulty.

So now racism is an Aspie trait?
My head hurts from all this eye-rolling.

I am still awaiting the day a post will appear bearing the following title: "Is Axe-Murdering A Conjoined Albino Platypus an Aspie Trait?"

Oh wait a minute, another forum post implies we might be serial killers. Back to this post: illogical reasoning. Dogs are really racist. They just cannot discern human faces/expressions very well. They actively discriminate towards postmen though. Ditto for those cats who selectively shun the human race.


re: below. Ditto.

I have trouble with everyone's face. It's nothing to do with racism.

AS and NT are not races. And I would imagine the underlying drivers of cross-race identification difficulties are very different than the underlying drivers of aspies and auties being unable to read facial expressions. Since the statement in the OP defies any logic I can see, perhaps the initial statement was worded poorly and something else was meant?

Check out the Neanderthal Theory of Autism.....that brings idea you've just expressed into an extreme

Racism is loosely defined as believing certain races to be fundamentally inferior people. I believe this idea actually goes against the commonly seen trait aspies have whereby we are infuriated by any form of injustice or unfair treatment.

I think this topic can only be discussed once we can have objective, unbiased views on racism.

What almost all people never realize is that most of our sociopolitical achievements (such as making racism, fascism, sexism, etc unacceptable) are just a swap of extremes, that is instead of bashing the one group you just equally bash the other. The mostly undetermined, easy to influence people, group with the minority and become the majority, hence the previously dominant group becomes the minority. As a side effect, the common view of the vast majority becomes that every single belief/idea/action/effect of that group is unjustifiable and unfounded. A faux simplified image of the group is created in which nothing that makes sense can support their ideas and beliefs, in order to support the own viewpoint. E.g. just like black people were stereotyped as inferior and less intelligent in the past, now racist are commonly stereotyped as some kind of dumb redneck or hatred-guided psychopath or misguided teenager who was just in the wrong social group, or whatever loosely fits into real circumstances. This will be the case, as long as the now-minority is still present and perceived as (a significant) possible threat or as long as something needs to be easily justified based on those objectively incorrect views.

Given that effect, there cannot be an objective discussion over such subject with people who have not clearly emancipated from the commonly held views, beliefs and stereotypes of society.

Otherwise I could tell you how it fits together.