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The Sassy Savant: Autism Is Not A “Get Out Of Jail Free” Card
Calling out trolls that use a developmental disability as an excuse to be racist
There’s been this whole trend that I’ve been seeing on Twitter lately…and it makes me want to puke. I try to keep away from that sector of the popular social media platform, but somehow a few of them forget their place and mind someone else’s business instead of their own. This sector I’m talking about are the dregs of society that take pleasure in doing what they call “shitposting” because they don’t have anything productive to do with their lives. I am referring to racists that use autism as an excuse to act like clods of turd left on the street. Pardon the rather graphic expression, but that’s how I take these trolls to be.
For anyone who’s ever perused Twitter, you may have seen this type of troll. They make all these burner accounts and tweet with child-like speech that they’re looking for “frens”. Now in case you need to be on the up & up, “fren” is a double play on words. It’s a corrupted spelling of the word friend and is also an acronym for “Far-Right Ethno-Nationalist”. They’re best known for having banners and avatars of some drooling, inbred-looking frog wearing a blue baseball hat that says it has autism. They try to play innocent in making jokes about Black people (that’s the main reason I have beef with these trolls), as well as uploading images of racist symbols and megalomaniacs. But there’s nothing innocent in making jokes about folks they continue to benefit from.
The biggest headache is how they constantly resurface like a virus as soon as Twitter gets them out of the paint. The cycle is annoying; you report them, their account gets locked, you report them again, they get suspended, they come back with another burner. The next day…wash, rinse, repeat. All because they create another Gmail account and download an app that generates bogus phone numbers.
The thing that pisses me off about this Twitter frog sector is the fact that they use autism as an excuse to be racist, similar to Roseanne blaming her racism on Ambien (and rightfully getting dragged for it). Pardon my bluntness, but using a neurological disability as a front for being racist is bullshit. Autistic people like myself have to…
