RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXI
08-14-2021, 01:01 PM (This post was last modified: 08-14-2021, 01:20 PM by Black Aeronaut. Edit Reason: Adding a real life example of what I was talking about. )
08-14-2021, 01:01 PM (This post was last modified: 08-14-2021, 01:20 PM by Black Aeronaut. Edit Reason: Adding a real life example of what I was talking about. )
(08-14-2021, 05:08 AM)Umbire Wrote:(08-11-2021, 07:52 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: Somehow, this feels like that "Oh, but we're just autistic like that" kind of bullshit that I so very much despise.
Also no idea what this means. Clarify, if you please?
Simple. Some people will claim to having autism to excuse the fact that they're just ass holes, like as if being on the autism spectrum means it's okay to be misogynistic, racist, a bully, or what have you. And, as someone who is on the Spectrum himself, I absolutely despise these people because not only is it a pathetic excuse, but it makes people like me look bad.
In this case, it would not surprise me if their excuse is that they're on the Autism Spectrum in order to excuse themselves from going all TV Tropes on all these other Wikis, just because the material they cover did a no-no once or twice.
Doubly so because purging the entire wiki for Poland Ball just because of one instance of racism on Poland Ball's part (not the Wiki per say) would be a bit like Wikipedia purging their article on Bill Cosby because it turned out he was a rapist.
EDIT: An example of what I mean about people using Autism as an excuse, albeit an extreme one, was the man that drove a rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in Toronto some time ago, killing ten and injuring fifteen. His defense tried to claim that he did it because he was on the Autism Spectrum, thus making it into a modern-age version of "The Devil made me do it", which just about made me lose my shit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/v...-1.5933687