# Living while black in America **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 9, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611 "2018-07-09T21:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1010
**Author:** ![Huey\_Freeman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/huey_freeman/32/251_2.png) [@Huey\_Freeman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huey_Freeman)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611/1010 "2018-09-17T20:35:26Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > And all this talk about disability isn’t really a hijack so much as it is a diversion, really. For centuries the “experts” have used arguments based on spurious evidence that the “negro race” was inferior to whites. That they were incomplete, incapable of succeeding in society, in need of the constant patronage of the noble withes. **Huey** just turned that tactic on it’s ear. Injecting the notion that the white race was somehow degenerating as shown by the correlation to autism. And that this inferiority justifies not taking their arguments seriously. “what gives you the right to rule the world when you cant even prevent your own people from becoming drooling invalids?” More or less. I think that inbreeding is a strong contributing factor to autism. This is not controversial, just painful to hear. I think this inbreeding is due, in part, to the fact that most white people are only attracted to other white people. This is likely exacerbated by the one-drop rule which discourages genetic diversity as well as current cultural mores which stigmatize interracial couplings. Now, you have a large swath of white folks who are on the spectrum. These are white folks who are resistant to change and lack cognitive empathy. This brings me to my personal, pet theory: white folks appear as monsters not because they are evil, but because most are born with a paucity of empathy and compassion. This is why white folks can say “Yes, she was sexually assaulted but she shouldn’t have waited so long to lodge her complaint” or “Diversity is not a strength” or “People of color have less intelligence than everyone” or to deliberately run over a black man (who was being a good Samaritan) with your vehicle and refer to his broken and bloodied dead body as “some nigger”. It’s a complete and utter lack of empathy and compassion that, in my view, has its roots in autism, selfishness, evilness, or a combination thereof. From slavery and the trail of tears to the separation of children from their parents, white folks show time and time again that they have no empathy. If you bring up slavery, we’re told that it’s OK because there were “African slavers” (no, really, this has been said); if you bring up the Trail of Tears, we’re told that it’s OK because of “historical relativism” (no, really, this has been said); if you bring up children being separated from their families, we’re told it’s OK because the it’s really a “day camp” (no, really, this has been said). If a white man who shoots up a school, an open-air concert, an elementary school, or a church, we’re told it’s OK because the dead, accused, or survivors are “crisis actors” or that the event “didn’t happen” (no, really, this has been said). The surety white folks have in their alternative facts are impenetrable. In the end, the high rates of autism in white families is the curse of white supremacy and whiteness. It also begs the question whether it is possible to have a vibrant, functioning democracy without compassion, empathy, or some degree of empathetic leadership. White folks desire to be sequestered and isolated from people of color is so strong, their attraction to white features so implacable, that white folks are willing to produce and rear a disabled white child rather than mate with a person of color and produce a neurotypical/normal child. One more thing, white folks: Your children are more racist than you. Please know that. I know you’ll deny it and I know this pains you to hear, but it’s true. I feel safer with a self-absorbed, race-denying, Trump-voting baby boomer cop than I do with an angry, reddit-roaming, alcohol-drinking, incel-card carrying Millennial/GenXer cop. It goes to show you that you give a generation everything (literally, everything including the picket fence) and they can’t raise kids for shit. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/living-while-black-in-america/817611)._