• galmuth@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Awful. Being autistic she may well have meant it at face value without it being an insult, and not understood what she did wrong as she just stated a fact. Then being dragged out while she had an autistic meltdown :(

    Even if she did mean it as an insult and wasn’t autistic, there’d be still no need to drag her out and arrest her. She’s a kid. Educate her, sure, but there was no need to escalate it.

    • temptest [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      The bottom line is, the victim having autism and being young is irrelevant in the sense that no-one should be treated like that for such a trivial insult.

      It’s obviously still relevant, the victim is particularly vulnerable, making the abuse so much more obviously callous and disgusting. But I say if this happened to Joe Citizen, it would also be horrific.

    • Kuori [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Educate her, sure

      “now honey, what you said was deeply offensive to your grandmother. she doesn’t look like a thumb-cop!”