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2014-11-02 Home Front: Culture Wars

Yes, 'Aspergery' Is a Slur and It's Time to Stop Using It

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Posted by Fred 2014-11-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Is it a slur when applied to people that actually have Asperger's? I know some people and friends who show various degrees of it and they are definitely spergy.

And while I have never met him personally, Netanyahu does not seem aspergery in the least. Nor chicken shit. This are just schoolyard insults from the self-proclaimed smartest guys in the room.

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-02 00:56|| 2014-11-02 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL. Is that comment Aspergery on purpose or by accident? Bonus Aspie points if no irony was intended. :)

Posted by RandomJD 2014-11-02 00:57|| 2014-11-02 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Fred's comment, I mean, not SteveS.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-11-02 00:58|| 2014-11-02 00:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Hey, I resemble that remark!

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-02 01:31|| 2014-11-02 01:31|| Front Page Top

#5 TW?

Posted by Shipman 2014-11-02 06:44|| 2014-11-02 06:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Why is everyone picking on Asperigus, yeah, ok, it makes your p smell funny, but really it is good for you. I think Michelle has endorsed it for her school lunch menu suggestions, right next to the non gluten bread and water; "GULAG" menu as I like to call it.

Posted by Jiggs the Batty3387 2014-11-02 08:50|| 2014-11-02 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 TW?

Yes, Shipman dear?

Hemingway, how could you possibly know about making friends in combat?

Posted by trailing wife 2014-11-02 09:21|| 2014-11-02 09:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, that leaves Joe Biden out as the culprit. I don't think he'd know how to pronounce the word unless he heard someone else use it.

Sounds like an epithet the twenty-something staffers or the "Harvard crowd" would use.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-02 09:30|| 2014-11-02 09:30|| Front Page Top

#9 A Wimp-Lo vocabulary.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-11-02 10:35|| 2014-11-02 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Know any good mathematician who isn't "Aspergery"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-02 16:19|| 2014-11-02 16:19|| Front Page Top

#11 "In many ways, the current blasé attitude towards using 'autistic' or 'Aspergery' as an insult is akin to the way 'gay' was a socially acceptable insult."

Didn't see that one coming. /sarc

Posted by Herb Threamp3807 2014-11-02 19:10|| 2014-11-02 19:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Knowany good mathematician who isn't "Aspergery"?

Nope. Same with really good engineers.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-02 20:39|| 2014-11-02 20:39|| Front Page Top

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