We need to have a conversation about how many cishet white autistic men are radicalized into far right supremacy, but that discussion has to consider the whole 'cishet white man' thing as thoroughly as it considers autism as a factor.
Like, this clearly isn't an 'autism' thing. Yes, autistic people are treated awfully. But do you think that autistic people who aren't cishet white men aren't also treated awfully? Why aren't we all ripe for radicalisation by the far right as well?
Instead many multiply-marginalised autistic people are 'radicalized' towards social justice and ending suffering and oppression as a result of their own terrible experiences, not causing more of it. So don't leave that out of your discussion about far right radicalism and autism.
Important to discuss? Yes.

But it has to be in the greater context that white cishet men are ALREADY more likely to be radicalized, and discuss how their differing response to being treated badly is rooted in an expectation of privilege that marginalised people don't have.
In addition, the fact that many cishet white autistic men become radicalized to far right ideology in no way affects my opinion, as an autistic advocate, that physically resisting against fascists is not a bad thing.
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