SuZir
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Good to hear you found a quick and easy resolution.
I just sometimes wonder how much excess political correctness even helps different minority groups. There I live we have a problem that certain immigrant groups seem to commit much more than their share of certain type of crimes. And to avoid racism media often tries to not tell about suspects ethnic background and it just makes people suspicious and think that problem is not addressed at all. And of course it makes some rather absurd news stories. Recently there for example was an aggravated rape middle of the city, middle of the day and police was asking public if anyone saw the culprit after the fact. Media did print a description 'foreign, speaks English, jeans, white tee shirt, 6 feet tall, slender.' They did leave out one fact from the police announcement; that guy was black, and this in the area there population is over 90 % white. This kind of political correctness is not helping at all.
I see little bit same when we talk about different disorders and want political correctness. At times it is not that helpful in the end. Other local recent crime story was about the guy who stabbed other guy to death because he thought the other guy had stolen something rather insignificant from him. It seems he had lost it himself but anyway, he was hangovered and thought the guy who was visiting him had stolen it. Before he was convicted they evaluated his mental state (standard practise for serious crimes) and found him decreasedly compos mentis (we have three possibilities in this for criminal justice, either you are sane, decreasedly so or insane), because of several factors, main one being his asperger syndrome. News about this has collected lots of comments how this can not be right. How he has to be misdiagnosed, because people with asperger are not criminal but are rule followers and don't break rules or laws.
While it may seem nice that certain disability has a good reputation sometimes even that is not very helpful. Here for example people with asperger syndrome are thought to be very smart and very conscientious and very law and rules abiding. Nice stereotype if you are not having an asperger kid, who is not much like that and are having hard time making other people to understand that kid may have behavioural or academic issues even if they are with aspergers. I have a co-worker who has been very frustrated with 'good rep' asperger is having. She has a daughter with aspergers. She is high functioning but didn't do too well at school because she declined studying anything that didn't interest her. She has also never been much of the rule follower. Instead she is very righteous and follows the rules as she thinks they should be. She has been in a lot of legal trouble for eco terrorism-type of crimes and graffiti and stealing. She has already more damages to pay than she will ever be able to pay. And she doesn't think she is doing anything wrong, because she thinks laws are wrong, people should not have a right to kill animals for food but animals should have same rights as people, graffiti should be allowed everywhere and there should not be any private property but everything should be shared. So when she shoplifts, she doesn't think she is doing anything wrong, because in her rules no one should be allowed to sell anything. She is strict with rules and follows them, they just have to be her rules and she is very angry others are not following her rules, because they are so much better than other people rules. To be honest she is not an only individual with asperger I know, who seem to have that way of thinking. But popular stereotype here is that people with autism can not commit crimes. Frustrating for the parents of kids in autism spectrum.
I just sometimes wonder how much excess political correctness even helps different minority groups. There I live we have a problem that certain immigrant groups seem to commit much more than their share of certain type of crimes. And to avoid racism media often tries to not tell about suspects ethnic background and it just makes people suspicious and think that problem is not addressed at all. And of course it makes some rather absurd news stories. Recently there for example was an aggravated rape middle of the city, middle of the day and police was asking public if anyone saw the culprit after the fact. Media did print a description 'foreign, speaks English, jeans, white tee shirt, 6 feet tall, slender.' They did leave out one fact from the police announcement; that guy was black, and this in the area there population is over 90 % white. This kind of political correctness is not helping at all.
I see little bit same when we talk about different disorders and want political correctness. At times it is not that helpful in the end. Other local recent crime story was about the guy who stabbed other guy to death because he thought the other guy had stolen something rather insignificant from him. It seems he had lost it himself but anyway, he was hangovered and thought the guy who was visiting him had stolen it. Before he was convicted they evaluated his mental state (standard practise for serious crimes) and found him decreasedly compos mentis (we have three possibilities in this for criminal justice, either you are sane, decreasedly so or insane), because of several factors, main one being his asperger syndrome. News about this has collected lots of comments how this can not be right. How he has to be misdiagnosed, because people with asperger are not criminal but are rule followers and don't break rules or laws.
While it may seem nice that certain disability has a good reputation sometimes even that is not very helpful. Here for example people with asperger syndrome are thought to be very smart and very conscientious and very law and rules abiding. Nice stereotype if you are not having an asperger kid, who is not much like that and are having hard time making other people to understand that kid may have behavioural or academic issues even if they are with aspergers. I have a co-worker who has been very frustrated with 'good rep' asperger is having. She has a daughter with aspergers. She is high functioning but didn't do too well at school because she declined studying anything that didn't interest her. She has also never been much of the rule follower. Instead she is very righteous and follows the rules as she thinks they should be. She has been in a lot of legal trouble for eco terrorism-type of crimes and graffiti and stealing. She has already more damages to pay than she will ever be able to pay. And she doesn't think she is doing anything wrong, because she thinks laws are wrong, people should not have a right to kill animals for food but animals should have same rights as people, graffiti should be allowed everywhere and there should not be any private property but everything should be shared. So when she shoplifts, she doesn't think she is doing anything wrong, because in her rules no one should be allowed to sell anything. She is strict with rules and follows them, they just have to be her rules and she is very angry others are not following her rules, because they are so much better than other people rules. To be honest she is not an only individual with asperger I know, who seem to have that way of thinking. But popular stereotype here is that people with autism can not commit crimes. Frustrating for the parents of kids in autism spectrum.
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