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Forscher PS, Kteily NS. A psychological profile of the alt-right. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 2020; 15(1):90–116. doi: 10.1177/1745691619868208. [ PMC free article] [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] What type of “speech act” is being analyzed? What is the significance of this? What is the context in which these Gab posts are produced? On October 25th, Redditor elsuperj submitted a post asking for /r/AskThe_Donald [3] readers to "explain the 'weaponized autism' in-joke." On November 29th, Urban Dictionary [1] user BarrySoetero submitted an entry for "weaponized autism," defining it as "the focused application of nerdiness, computer tech avvy and social awkwardness in the cyber pursuit of justice" (shown below). We cherish our autism for we have weaponized it and made of it a terrifying sword with which to harrow our enemies My god, if #CrookedHillary really wants to control the people and stop #Trump, she need to stop worrying about guns and ban weaponized autism ASAP. Their autism know no bounds. #MAGA

Bogerts L, Fielitz M. “Do You Want Meme War?”: Understanding the Visual Memes of the German Far Right. In: Fielitz M, editor. Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag; 2019. pp. 137–208. [ Google Scholar] Appleton JV, King L. Journeying from the philosophical contemplation of constructivism to the methodological pragmatics of health services research. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 2002; 40(6):641–648. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02424.x. [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] Sofronoff K, Dark E, Stone V. Social vulnerability and bullying in children with Asperger syndrome. Autism. 2011; 15(3):355–372. doi: 10.1177/1362361310365070. [ PubMed] [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] The layers of irony, as well as the humour and sarcasm used within these spaces (May & Feldman, 2018) increase the risk of attracting online users who are merely curious or who are attracted to the humour and “shenanigans” but who are not truly interested in the ideological underpinnings of alt-right forums. These layers of irony and humour can also make it difficult for family members and clinicians to know how entrenched a person is in the ideology, since the plausible deniability lent by LULZ tactics extend to individual users and people who consume the material. actually that makes sense. thanks m8 that’s why I don’t have anyone, no one deserve to be paired up with the pure weaponized autism that I am :D I’m okay with this, I’m a living weapon :DGreene VS. “Deplorable” satire: Alt-right memes, white genocide tweets, and redpilling normies. Studies in American Humor. 2019; 5(1):31–69. doi: 10.5325/studamerhumor.5.1.0031. [ CrossRef] [ Google Scholar] I need the weaponized Autism of /pol/! /pol/ got a president elected. Now we need a party in congress that will support him! #MAGAParty *NOTE /pol/ is a reference to “politically incorrect”, a discussion board on 4chan known for hate speech (Tuters, 2018) While the use of extant texts that have been scraped from online discourse can be seen as “non-invasive”, there remain important ethical considerations for this study. Eynon, Fry and Schroeder (Eynon et al., 2017) propose three concepts at the core of research ethics: confidentiality, anonymity, and informed consent. Maintaining confidentiality and anonymity was a straightforward process, as we did not gain access to the “real” identities of Gab users. Additionally, we do not share usernames when reporting on this work. While informed consent is important in human subject research, it is well accepted that certain kinds of research can ethically proceed without informed consent, including observational research in public places and analysis of texts that are “in the public domain” (Willis, 2019). Our team has also been concerned with the ethics surrounding reporting and dissemination of our findings from this study and from our larger study. We are aware of the potential to cause harm in the greater autistic community by highlighting an association between autism and engagement with online hate material, when our best information suggests that autistic people are much more likely to be targets of online aggression than perpetrators (Ashburner et al., 2019; Campbell et al., 2017). We have attempted to mitigate this concern with careful use of language in our reporting, with special attention to suggestions made by our autistic coauthor (JR).

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