Tuco wrote (I clearly quoted it in the main post, it is sad that I have to underline it again just because you stubbornly lack understanding
. But I am a nice person, so I do it for you
)
"I brought up the term that perfectly described the type of obsessive-compulsive, petty, whinyand socially-stunted attitude I was witnessing.
And don't even try to sell the bullshit that the entire thread was "closed because of me", anyway."
..and by the way, also just using "autistic" as an insult is offensive for all autistic people. He did more, but also if he just did what you say it was hate speech.
Think about the same user "just" addressing with the "N word" all users that disagree with him. Cmon, you can understand this i know it.
So what you say is that all those commenters are indeed autistic and they were attacked
because of it? I am pretty sure THAT would be hate speech.
That's why some form of the legal advice is suggested, to make sure that does count as hate speech. I don't think that making a racist/sexist/anti-autistic comment doesn't automatically qualifies as hate speech. Calling someone who acts stingy "You jew!" (example from where I grew in. I can't think of an example when someone would use N word toward not black people - the distinction which I think is important) isn't a tasteful insult to make, and has basis in racist assumptons, but it's not an attack on actual Jews, as that person is most likely not a actual Jew.
EDIT. And while moderators will do good to stop users from insult each other ("Discuss the topic not each other" is line often thrown on Obsidian's forum) erasing posts constaing insults might be counter-productive. And as I see it Tucos comments where still insults aimed at yourself and other users, not autistic people, even if he should show more empathy toward people who got unlucky to be born with a disorder and not use it as an insult.
