I wish this wasn’t true. I went to Duke, I work at Duke, and 95% of the place is pretty good. I already emailed the chair of the history department.
Can I smack this loser silly, as an Autistic American? Most of the autism spectrum is what’s called “high-functioning”–average or higher IQ’s just a bit “different,” really more like the differences between Windows vs MacOS–a different “operating system” with a different set of strengths and weaknesses. Jefferson appears to have been HFA/Asperger’s, and Bill Gates is an uncanny dead-ringer for the profile.
And the spectrum’s politics are as scattered and divergent as the details of our individual cases–for every hard-right among us there’s an equally-hard-leftist.
Most libertarians, and most autistics, just wanna be left alone to mind our own business. As long as the bills are paid and responsibilities are met, what’s wrong with that?
She’s right about one thing. I don’t feel any solidarity with or empathy for her.
Well if it wasn’t for all the autistic members of 4Chan and Reddit we wouldn’t have President Trump so…
I have a feeling that some of her fellow faculty members from the economics department would take offense to that if they are anything like the professors I had. Almost every Econ professor I had was leaning pretty hard in the libertarian direction.
I saw her faculty webpage, she’s pretty out there. I have discretely asked around (I was in the grad program for health policy), the history department has hunkered down. Lots of people at the Board of Trustees wringing their hands. My sense is they are all hoping it just goes away.
Keep beating the drum so that it doesn’t. Use the left’s tactics against them.
Well, I know of ONE school that’s off the list for finishing my BA and pressing on to my Masters… of course if their History Dept embraces douches like her their Mil History program probably sucks sweaty donkey balls.
Meanwhile I’d put a lot of university professors one the schizophrenic and psychopathic spectrum.
I identify as libertarian and personally take this as a great compliment.
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Along with other mental disorders that have strong positive correlation to Radical Left ideology…
Maybe everyone should let her and the administration know how they feel.
Nancy Maclean
nancy.maclean@duke.edu
John Jeffries Martin - Chair of the Dept of History
john.j.martin@duke.edu
Milton Blackmon - Academic Dean
milton.blackmon@duke.edu
Excellent point, WB. I’m already working up a nastygram about how “as an Autistic American, I don’t feel that Duke’s history department would be a safe space for my studies.” LOL Can we game this together and try to figure out how many Proggie trigger buzzwords we can work in? 
Lulz.
Where do I sign up to take an Autism blood test?
I’ve been called worse by better people.
I’m ok with this one.
Or maybe we should forward this to 4chan… let Duke U experience what “weaponized autism” can do firsthand. lol
Beat me to it.
Do you sometimes feel like there should be less government? Do you feel taxation is theft? Do you wish to be left alone and leave others alone? If so please call our Autism hotline here at Duke University. You may be one of millions suffering from libertarian autism. With our approved system we can have you feeling like government is the answer again.
Well, in my opinion, there is a strong correlation between tenure and megalomaniacal mental illness. Perhaps I should apply for a research grant to further study this phenomenon…