Active discrimination, or feeling oppressed?

Posted Jul 28, 2009 12:06 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Active discrimination, or feeling oppressed? by PaulWay
Parent article: OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowd

As I heard it put once, "being brilliant does not give you a license to be nasty". (In fact, being brilliant should really lead to your being *more* humble than otherwise, to avoid scaring everyone else away.)

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Active discrimination, or feeling oppressed?

Posted Jul 29, 2009 1:55 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

To extend the Aspie references a bit: people who have real clinically diagnosable Aspergers Sydrome and work on projects like ours *are not being nasty* in behaving in the ways that people are pointing to.

"Nasty" requires what criminal lawyers refer to as "scienter", the knowledge that you're committing a crime.

Aspergers is almost defined as *not having the circuits to detect that*.

So again, we're talking past one another here.

They're not *exercising* "a license to be nasty". They're just being them, and they don't have time for ... no, that's not the right way to put it, either, as it again implies choice. See how hard this stuff is to talk about?