galgohelder:

a hot take? believing in thought crimes is inherently ableist.

there is no version of thinking that someone’s thoughts alone define who they are and what they’re worth as a person or thinking that people should be judged and punished for their thoughts as they would be for spoken words and actions that does not target neurodivergent people. 

there is no way you can believe that thought crimes are real without that meaning you condemn neurodivergent people who suffer from intrusive thoughts or whose neurodivergence affects their thinking or emotional processes in a way that causes them to have thoughts that are not particularly kind or positive or charitable about other people or the world they’re in. 

to believe in thought crimes is to believe that neurodivergent people are inherently bad, inherently evil, inherently dangerous, and inherently deserving of being locked up or punished in some other way. 

and to say you believe in thought crimes “but no, wait, i don’t mean for neurodivergent people! i mean for everyone else!” is a cop out that signifies you either don’t actually believe in thought crimes but find the concept useful as a justification for ostracizing and abusing people or you haven’t actually thought that much about the platform you stand on in any nuanced way.