In his rec-listed diary Callous and Despicable on Monday, Horace Boothroyd III made us aware of the appalling "Second Amendment!" heckling when Neil Heslin, father of one of the Sandy Hook murder victims, publicly questioned why Bushmaster assault-style weapons are allowed to be sold in his state.
The conclusion of the diary went like this:
I'm on the Autism spectrum so I'm stuck with all the empathy the Republicans never got apparently.When I encountered the diary, twelve hours and a hundred-plus comments later, nobody had yet commented on what he'd said about being on the autism spectrum and stuck with empathy. An excerpt of my own comment:
I hope folks don't think that's snark. The awful stereotype associating autism with lack-of-empathy is so deeply destructive and deeply false.Horace Boothroyd III responded, "You should diary this."
And so here I am, with the resulting diary continuing beyond the jump.