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Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars."
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
What's great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he's absolving Musk, or that he's criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,
'No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!'
A "special ed professional" is not able to diagnose autism from a distance any more than anyone else.
And yes, saying "he is autistic" to explain why he does something atrocious is an excuse.
And yet I'm not excusing his actions. He's an adult and he's fully responsible for everything he says and does. I just don't hate him, I think his fall from "Let's colonize Mars" to sucking Trump's dick and being a danger to society is a sad tale. I also feel sad that people can't even regard him as a human being - that's the exact mentality that eventually lets the government throw people into gas chambers.
And yet you're still diagnosing someone with autism from a distance, which is not possible.
Until you figure that out, nothing you say is defensible.