@DrALJONES Autistic people also often lack empathy or experience it in non-standard ways, but I'm doubtful that many would be comfortable with similar stigmatization applied towards autism.
Supposed "proper" neurotypical people have repeatedly demonstrated an incredible lack of care towards others in recent time. Mass support of genocide, increasing support of fascism, increasing misogyny and transmisia. The more longstanding and near universal support for carnism among "normal" people is a desert of empathy or conscience.
People like Elon Musk are not unique. Should they be removed from power? Yes. Will removing them from power remove the capitalist and white supremacist systems that produced them? No.
For so long as such systems of oppression exist, power will be rewarded to oppressors for their continued participation and support of those oppressive systems. People like Elon Musk or Trump can be replaced like the heads on a hydra. Voting someone who is not disordered, who is not a "psychopath" into power will not challenge this; because, the issue is not clinical, it is not that the wrong people are in power, but rather the very systems of power which people have been indoctrinated into.
#neurodivergence #aspd #capitalism