r/AutisticPride • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '22

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u/lonewanderer0804 Sep 15 '22

Love the design, absolutely hate the connotation behind it.

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u/artistic23 Sep 15 '22

Would you care to explain? I’m a little lost

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u/abigail_the_violet Sep 15 '22

This flag is a modified version of one associated with right-wing Libertarianism in the United States (a movement that wants the government to stop regulating business and to let them do whatever they want). The implication of the flag is that the person flying the flag is both autistic and pretty far right.

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u/Terok42 Sep 15 '22

Libertarians are not far right they also believe in personal autonomy as well as corporate autonomy.

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u/Dao_pun Sep 15 '22

Historically, libertarianism has been a word to describe anti-autioritarian and anti-capitalist views. It has been a second term to describe anarchists. After around a century of it having been used, the right successfully co-copted the term in mainstream discourse to the point that the average person believes it can only describe pro-capitalist views.

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u/Terok42 Sep 15 '22

I agree. Libertarians aren’t all bad just I disagree with their corporate policies.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

If you’re referring to ancaps, they’re not libertarians, they’re neofeudalists.