What’s great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he’s absolving Musk, or that he’s criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,
‘No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!’
What’s great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he’s absolving Musk, or that he’s criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,
‘No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!’
I would describe Elon Musk as an autistic adult whose weird behavior patterns and way too much money are dangerous in a system that gives money way too much power.
edit: just to be clear to the angry arrow smashers, I’m not offering excuses, rationalizations or support for Elon Musk, just a purely clinical view of his behavior, and why it’s so dangerous that our system gives so much power to money. Without the influence his billions give him he would be just another annoying weird guy. Some people would probably even feel some sympathy for him if it didn’t carry the risk of being called Evil.
He has never been diagnosed with autism. In fact, he claims to have Asperger’s Syndrome, which was a diagnosis for high-functioning people on the Autistic spectrum invented by a Nazi. And he uses that claim as an excuse for his awful behavior.
If you are an actual clinician, it is absolutely unethical to diagnose someone with autism that way.
And if you were an actual clinician, you would know that no amount of “weird behavior patterns” have anything to do with embracing fascism, being a bigot, and throwing a fucking Nazi salute. And the suggestion that people would sympathize with someone who does that who isn’t rich because they claim to have autism says a lot more about you than it does anyone else.
His potential neurodivergence does not excuse the evil. The majority of autistic people comprehend morality.
Yeah I guess we’re not allowed to talk about this guy clinically at all. Has to be about good vs evil.
Where did you get your degree in psychology? How much experience have you had evaluating autistic people?
I would describe the wealthiest person in the world, Elon Musk, as the oligarchic son of an apartheid mining oligarch. His personality “quirks” are an irrelevant distraction that excuse & explain nothing.