"That's how he talks" and "it is quite contemptuous" are not opposed concepts.

"I hate the way special needs people talk, and people who don't speak the dialect I speak" isn't hate-speech either, just your opinion and just a fact, right?

And I'm not picking on you, it's just that most of what I read up and down this page is inseparable from normies not understanding, and even more, bullying, autistics.

I feel like until SBF has actually been diagnosed as having autism, it's not a good idea to treat his open disregard for the decorum in a court of law as being the result of autism.

I think till you're diagnosed as a normie I'm going to assume you are by your cowardly tendency to hide behind concepts such as "the decorum of a court of law". So prigish (yeah, there's a nice auld word for it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prig

Additionally he was perfectly capable of speaking normally when it was his team questioning him.

FWIW, as someone on the spectrum and with a kid on it as well, I'm not getting that vibe from the other comments.

Is a black person speaking in the AAVE dialect contemptuous? It not, then how is SBF's way of speaking contempt?

SBF isn't a black person. Based on the absurd argument you're making here, I am going to assume you weren't aware of this.

Haha how is it absurd? It's the way he talks. The way someone talks isn't contempt.

It is if the reason they talk that way is contempt.

It is not if its not.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

How is that a bad comment? I'm serious. The way a person naturally talks is ok and is never contempt. SBF says yup instead of yes. I usually say yeah. That's just how people talk.

It's a bad comment because it was a generic tangent that was very likely to lead (and indeed already did lead, a bit) to a flamewar about race.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123997.