Not for nothing here, and use whatever words you want…
But the use of this type of thing in time will be seen the same way as calling someone a retard/spastic/handicap etc today.
There’s a growing population of families impacted heavily by autism out there, and while it’s possible he is high functioning Asperger syndrome or something like that, I’d just stay away from using the spectrum as an insult.
Thankfully I’m not one of those families but I’ve a family member working in a school for autism and believe me the more extreme cases are absolutely horrific. There but for the grace of God…
Here is one of the most disingenuous and stupid columns I have read in a long time. Larry Elliott, like Seumas Milne, considers himself a man of the true unbowed Left. I think he is cankered utopian idiot. People like him are delusional – maybe entirely so but certainly on this topic. Labour can never out loon the Tory/UKIP loons on this front:
