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Re:John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free So... by orra on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:11AM (#26619576)
This is spot on, even though predictably and depressingly you've been downvoted to hell.

Autism does not excuse sexual harassment. Pretending it does is a complete ableist trope. As you say, it's a disservice to everybody with disabilities who have learnt, as necessary, to not sexually harass others.

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Re:John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free So... by incrudible on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:43AM (#26622422)
If I crack a bad joke due to my social ineptness, you may call that sexual harassment. However, due to my social ineptness, I will simply reject your definition of sexual harassment and insist that I was just making a harmless joke.

Perhaps some people with different expressions of that "disability" have the capacity to "learn" that they're "wrong". I don't. To suggest that I should have that capacity because others do is... ableist, I guess?

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Re:John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free So... by user-the-name on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:11PM (#26625918)
That is not a thing.
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Re:John Sullivan resign as executive director of the Free So... by incrudible on Monday March 29, 2021 @03:40PM (#26627184)
It is a thing.

QED

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