| LegitHyperbole said: I didn't mention autism, neurodivergent is a long list of ailments that would be effected, only adding to the mentally ill in jails which is a systemic problem. Autism is not a safeguard and frankly I do not care if it bother you because it should be, especially if the person is younger and hasn't had the time to adjust if it's possible for them cause there are differing degrees of autism, a spectrum, ranging from people who believe they are autistic cause it's trendy to people who are near catatonic the majority of the day. My best friend many years ago was functioning, not highly so but he was verbal and held a job, only got his jaw broken once by a gang of youths for being "abnormal" but he would display behaviour to such an extreme degree that you'd only see in a film and say things so randomly off the top of his head in the company of strangers, completely innocently and not coming from any place of malice, that would definetly get him offending someone today who might prosecute under these laws proposed. A man who believed everyone he met was his true friend that wouldn't hurt a fly, litterally probably get into an ethical conundrum over the hurting of a fly. If you have no empathy for Autistic people who display behaviour or say seemingly hateful things out of hand, you have not only been around the people who think they are autistic but aren't or are extremely high fuctioning and if you do, you're heartless, examples of things said such as "You have down syndrome, I notice your nose" or "Are all Nigerian people as stupid as yourself" are paraphrased things from the mouth of someone truly autistic who didn't know they were and autism gets better with age as the person learns social norms and the very negative aspects like being severely anal or focused on what's factual or emtional meltdown fade as time goes by. Severe Autism needs to be handled with anti pyscothic drugs in the modern age in civilizaied societies where we don't lock people up anymore and people live in the community. Remember these that I quoted are completely innocent things worded very badly that would get someone afflicted would be prosecuted under these laws if the person in the vicinity FEELS a level of offence. Intent matters and these laws ignore intent. Now most judges do two teir justice for minorities like I mentioned if not openly then subconsciously or by common sense but then you get some judges who are anal or poor in their judgement or perhaps TOO fair in their rulings. If you don't know the plight of severely autistic people trying to live outside of mental institutions in the modern day please look up the man who recently was killed by police while begging for his antipyscothic medication to calm himself down while he was melting down or go to your local day care center and volunteer every now and then if they do that sort of thing, you'll know exactly what I mean after a few days of it. |
I know that I've brought this up before.
A lot of your examples make no sense.
No one is pushing for illegalizing rude comments or something.
You're imagining a bizarre set of rules and punishments for vague crimes. The people on the left are not advocating for these things. In the real world, the people who you think are advocating for free speech, would be the first to punish people for any kind of neurodivergence.
