This is a good piece but if anything it soft-pedals the problem. It's not just NDs who get abused and oppressed. http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-speech/ … 1/
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Unwritten, quickly changing social codes are technologies of social control that serve to elevate and maintain the power of elites. 2/
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Here the new elite is made of what we might call 'hyperneurotypicals'--people with unusual gifts at conforming. 3/pic.twitter.com/btUS9mYxWt
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('Hyperneurotypical' is perhaps a bad term; one expects this group to have an unusual concentration of dark triad types.) 4/
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But while destroying autists may be the most obvious outcome of this new aristocratic parasitism, the damage has a long tail too. 5/
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Truly 'typical' people may be able to navigate these structures, but not as well as the gifted, not without difficulty or pain. 6/
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And in ruthlessly biasing the attention of all parties toward courtly intrigues, it biases the attention of all away from the world. 7/
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eg: One who might have studied CS in a different social climate instead gets a degree in Gender Studies--a secular title of aristocracy. 8/
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In constructing this climate, this _systemic oppression_, intersectionalists perpetuate what they oppose: hierarchy, abuse, bigotry. 9/9
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