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> Neurodiversity: the Nazi claim of different brains of different races. There is a human nature. We are not shrimp or crows.

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There's a diversity of brains within any single race.

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Push it one step further. There are no races. Each individual has a human brain w/free will. Cannibals have the same human brain as Hollywood directors, Asian rice paddy farmers and waiters in Paris. Each individual chooses to focus his mind or evade focusing. Or some combination. Thats life.

Atlas Shrugged-Ayn Rand

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Race is indeed a social construct, not a biological one. Neurodiversity refers to relatively random variation in the architecture of the brain, and has nothing to do with race. Human brains are not blank hard drives. The brain's architecture is unrelated to "race," as the term "race" is based on outward physical appearance (in the US) and/or cultural practice, ancestral heritage.

Neurodiversity has the opposite meaning of the Nazi conception of race, as the Nazi's brutally enforced their ideal uniform construct. The terms neurodiversity and neurotypical are unrelated to the Nazi vision of labeling dissidents as mentally ill, as well as executing and experimenting on children who didnтАЩt fit their vision of normal.

"Neurodiversity" is a term that labels diverse brains as normal, fully human, and intrinsically valuable. While certain neurological conditions can impose hardships on individuals who are therefore deserving of treatment, it is inappropriate to use derogatory labels to describe those individuals.

This comment conjures up a debate over the origins of autism and AspergerтАЩs Syndrome, and whether Hans Asperger was a Nazi collaborator who sent children to their death, or whether he saved some kids. Our understanding of autism and what is no longer called AspergerтАЩs Syndrome donтАЩt really come from Hans Asperger. While first identifying the condition, he didnтАЩt really publish much of value.

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Race and sociais a false idea of the free wills of some people. There are no social constructs.

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Race and social construct are false ideas. There is only the free will choice to focus and reason or evade and rationalize. Ideas are products of the minds processing of the evidence of the senses. Innate ideas are the absurdity of knowledge prior to knowledge. Neurodiversity has been invalidly used by the new racial/sexual communists to rationalize irrationality. Value is a product of a focused mind. There are no mystical intrinsic values. Suffering is not a mystical revelation obligating sacrifice.

Both Nazis and the new racial/sexual communists say there are basically biologically different types of humans, each w/their own interests and ideas. Hitler thought that Judiasm was good-for Jews. He rejected objectivity.

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