I don’t understand you. Brian writes: “there’s still something wrong with hinting that people are “(autistic)”, when they aren’t diagnosed with it, or don’t want to be known as that”
I wrote that the people I wrote about in the post used to be “terrible leaders”. I would guess that they don’t want to be known as terrible leaders, thus satisfying one of Brian’s conditions. Thus, I conclude that Brian and you want me to remove that part of my post as well.
If I wasn’t a fan of your other work I’d have written you off as trolling at the point. The costs from random people on the internet hypothesizing about who’s autistic are not only borne by the people you are hypothesising about, they are also borne by actually autistic people.
I don’t see what the upside is for you, other than not having to admit to a mistake. Neither Brian nor I disliked the article, and the article in no way relies on the claim that the people you are discussing are autistic. We’re just asking you not to throw around pseudodiagnoses about a condition that’s already pretty badly misunderstood.
I’m not trying to troll, sorry if it seems this way. I really don’t understand why you have a problem with “(autistic)” but don’t have a problem with a “terrible leader”. This seems inconsistent to me. As far as I can see all of your arguments apply to both of these. My title still seems justified to me.
This was intended to highlight that caring about harms to “bad leaders” and caring about harms to to autistic people are meaningfully different. I care about the latter, and don’t really care at all about theformer. I’m assuming from the downvotes that this was not clear.
What’s stopping you changing that here? Your article is nothing to do with autism. Changing the title would take less time than you’ve spent arguing in this thread, and improve the article in the eyes of at least two people (probably more judging from the upvotes) who feel strongly enough about it to have spent time engaging with you about it.
That isn’t even close to the same thing.
I don’t understand you. Brian writes: “there’s still something wrong with hinting that people are “(autistic)”, when they aren’t diagnosed with it, or don’t want to be known as that”
I wrote that the people I wrote about in the post used to be “terrible leaders”. I would guess that they don’t want to be known as terrible leaders, thus satisfying one of Brian’s conditions. Thus, I conclude that Brian and you want me to remove that part of my post as well.
If I wasn’t a fan of your other work I’d have written you off as trolling at the point. The costs from random people on the internet hypothesizing about who’s autistic are not only borne by the people you are hypothesising about, they are also borne by actually autistic people.
I don’t see what the upside is for you, other than not having to admit to a mistake. Neither Brian nor I disliked the article, and the article in no way relies on the claim that the people you are discussing are autistic. We’re just asking you not to throw around pseudodiagnoses about a condition that’s already pretty badly misunderstood.
I’m not trying to troll, sorry if it seems this way. I really don’t understand why you have a problem with “(autistic)” but don’t have a problem with a “terrible leader”. This seems inconsistent to me. As far as I can see all of your arguments apply to both of these. My title still seems justified to me.
I don’t have a problem admitting a mistake and in fact in the past I have changed the title of the post based on people telling me that it wasn’t justified: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/gn55rx/ignore_any_paper_based_on_selfreported_data/fvcfskr/
It’s a lot easier to learn to be a better leader than it is to learn not to be autistic...
This was intended to highlight that caring about harms to “bad leaders” and caring about harms to to autistic people are meaningfully different. I care about the latter, and don’t really care at all about theformer. I’m assuming from the downvotes that this was not clear.
I’m surprised that you care about harms to autistic people but not to bad leaders. Are people born to be bad leaders somehow more deserving of that?
How is this relevant?......
What’s stopping you changing that here? Your article is nothing to do with autism. Changing the title would take less time than you’ve spent arguing in this thread, and improve the article in the eyes of at least two people (probably more judging from the upvotes) who feel strongly enough about it to have spent time engaging with you about it.
I believe I’m right and I do not believe in giving in to the mob.
Thank you for saying this.