Being autistic doesn't justify being a Nazi

It's painful to see how much damage Elon Musk and Kanye West are doing to people's perceptions of autism. Many people already have misconstrued ideas, especially around the following:

a) Autistic people are generally capable of making moral judgements like anyone else. This has been In fact, they show marginally higher levels of morality compared to neurotypical people.

Both of them are using their diagnoses as a scapegoat for their antisemitic and plain racist actions. Elon Musk knows exactly what he's doing. It's clearly something he's interested in so he will have researched it head-to-toe. Kanye has other problems and is aware that his actions are controversial. He's had mental health problems for years and is using them to justify his actions, so it's no coincidence that he happened to announce his autism "diagnosis" a few days before changing his website.

b) Nazism and Autism aren't compatible with each other. The Nazis were against neurodivergent people, with prominent figure Hans Asperger aiding their death in NS times.

If Elon and Kanye took their diagnoses seriously, they wouldn't support figures so fundamentally opposed to neurodiversity. That isn't the case.

c) Autism is still significantly misrepresented in society and media. The reason I made this post is because CBS, one of the USA's large media companies, had an interview where the guest blamed Kanye's behavior on his autism. Most people associate autism with savants, meltdowns (which is just a small part of the community) and even Tourette's. Unfortunately, Elon and Kanye's actions only increases the amount of prejudice and false assumptions people have against other autistic people. There also hasn't been much pushback against Elon and Kanye in this respect, which is why it's important that this gets talked about.

Because autism is so misunderstood, they can get away with it. I'm frustrated with the way things are heading, but hopefully we can help spread more awareness ❤️