Comments on: Letter to my Member of Parliament http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/10/06/letter-to-my-member-of-parliament/ A place for raw, uncensored ideas to be hurled about, recklessly... Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Steynian 388 « Free Canuckistan! http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/10/06/letter-to-my-member-of-parliament/#comment-1797 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:19:22 +0000 http://blog.xanthippas.com/?p=2142#comment-1797 [...] XANTHIPPA ON Section 13(1) and Aspergers; and “Letter to my Member of Parliament“; Questions for Jennifer Lynch …. [...]

]]> By: ‘Section 13(1)’ and Aspergers « Xanthippa on Aspergers http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/10/06/letter-to-my-member-of-parliament/#comment-1771 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:30:41 +0000 http://blog.xanthippas.com/?p=2142#comment-1771 [...] I got a comment on my last post, which said exactly the same thing I had been ranting on and on about.  (The [...]

]]> By: Section 13(1) and Aspergers « Xanthippa’s Chamberpot http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/10/06/letter-to-my-member-of-parliament/#comment-1769 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:22:23 +0000 http://blog.xanthippas.com/?p=2142#comment-1769 [...] I got a comment on my last post, which said exactly the same thing I had been ranting on and on about.  (The [...]

]]> By: Rod Blaine http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/10/06/letter-to-my-member-of-parliament/#comment-1767 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:42:24 +0000 http://blog.xanthippas.com/?p=2142#comment-1767 Hi Xanthippa. Your blog has got me thinking… Perhaps we Aspies particularly resent censorship boards like Canada’s because we are used to “saying it like it is”, speaking the truth (as we see it) bluntly and plainly, and not being stopped by thin-skinned people taking offence. Aspies can’t detect _likely_ offence in advance, and if we played it safe and avoided all _possible_ offence, we’d never say anything!

Whereas those who support Canada’s state censorship system are probably neurotypicals who are good at treading their way carefully, taking cues from context. They have picked up, for example, that joking about assassinating President Bush is “brave dissent” while joking about assassinating President Obama is “racist hate speech” that will get you visited by the FBI.

Aspies like to have the rules laid out clearly, neutrally and consistently. They/ we don’t like implications, winks and nods, and “It just is, okay?!” So you get someone like Ezra Levant (almost certainly an Aspie) asking why the Emperor has no clothes, why Canada’s censorship rules are applied differently to Christians and Muslims, and a lot of people regard him with distaste: he’s rude, he’s offensive, he’s loud, he’s rocking the boat, he “just doesn’t get it”.

Perhaps Section 13 could be struck down as discriminating on basis of a disability, do you think?

]]> By: [Updated and reposted] Alright, get to work, you guys: questions for Jennifer Lynch « The Lynch Mob http://blog.xanthippas.com/2009/10/06/letter-to-my-member-of-parliament/#comment-1765 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:40:33 +0000 http://blog.xanthippas.com/?p=2142#comment-1765 [...] Update 2 contd. From Xanthippa of Xanthippa's Chamberpot: The following is a letter I have just emailed to my MP, and which I have copied to all the members [...]

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