areyouevenreal ,

The first half of this comment is pretty reasonable and I agree with you on most of it.

I can't overlook the rest though.

I apologize in advance for saying this, but now you ARE acting autistic. Because instead of giving me the benefit of the doubt and assuming that perhaps I WAS being honest and forthright with my apology, you are doubling down on being right to condemn me for my words. And isn't that doing exactly the same thing you are accusing me of? Because now YOU're making a caricature of me by ignoring the fact that I DID apologize and provide clarification, but you present that caricature as the truth instead.

So would it be okay if I said something like "AI is behaving like someone who is extremely smart but because they are a woman they can't hold real moral or emotional positions"? Do you think a simple apology that doesn't show you have learned anything at all would be good enough? I was trying to explain why what you said is actually wrong, dangerous, and trying to be polite about it, but then you double down anyway. Imagine if I tried to defend the above statement with "I apologize in advance but NOW you ARE acting like a woman". Same concept with race, sexuality, and so on. You clearly have a prejudice about autistic people (and possibly disabled people in general) that you keep running into.

Like bro actually think about what you are saying. The least you could have done is gone back and edited your original comment, and promised to do better. Not making excuses for perpetuating harmful misinformation while leaving up your first comment to keep spreading it.

I didn't say you were being malicious or ignoring your apology. You were being ignorant though and now stubborn to boot. When you perpetuate both prejudice and misinformation you have to do more than give a quick apology and expect it to be over; you need to show your willingness to both listen and learn and you have done the opposite. All people are the products of their environment and abelism is one of the least recognized forms of discrimination. Even well meaning people regularly run into it, and I am hoping you are one of these.

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