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"I don't want to sound like I care overmuch about political correctness" "... But... I do want to write a blog post calling out Jeff Atwood, because it makes f
by swombat 17y ago
"I don't want to sound like I care overmuch about political correctness"
"... But... I do want to write a blog post calling out Jeff Atwood, because it makes for great linkbait."
Describing someone as borderline autistic is, as others have said, an idiom, a throwaway expression, not one meant to make a reference to real autism. It might be slightly un-PC to some, but that's a question that you claim you don't want to address.
I think this is a decent article, but a slightly dishonest starting point. You write well, you can do better.
Edit: I'm willing to accept that perhaps you honestly misunderstood the expression. In that case, I withdraw my accusation of dishonesty.
- WrongBot 17y agoIf it's an idiom that isn't meant to have anything to do with real autism, then I genuinely missed that memo. And the title wasn't really intended as linkbait; I was annoyed with Atwood after seeing that phrase because I genuinely like his writing and expect better from him. After seeing his post about autism that someone linked above, though, I do regret the title, and if I'd seen that before (which I should have), I would have gone with something a lot less inflamatory.
- swombat 17y agoIf everyone understood everyone else all the time, we wouldn't have wars, politics, crime, etc. :-)