• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    20 天前

    Hey, let’s not lower ourselves to Beast’s level. Sociopathy is just Greek for “social illness”. It refers to psychosocial disorders like autism. Beast is afraid of being called autistic because he’s a bigot. We’re not like him. We don’t hate autistic people.

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      20 天前

      If we lived in ancient Greece, you may have a point, but that word has a specific, medical meaning today. It does not refer to Autism.

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        20 天前

        If we lived in ancient Greece, you may have a point

        No, they wouldn’t.

        Socio- is from Latin socius meaning companion or ally. Only the suffix has Greek roots. The term was coined way after the ancient Greeks and Romans.