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Reminds me of what happened to Alan Turing.
by generalizations 4y ago
Reminds me of what happened to Alan Turing.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoIt’s not the 50’s any longer. Mental illness is real.
- NoraCodes 4y agoSo is research that shows that mental illness has little link to violence. And, hell, so is homophobia! Let's say we make a law that says the state can black bag you and force you to take Abilify based on some arbitrary application of a psychology questionnaire by a state-employed psychologist; what's to say that a future administration doesn't reclassify homosexuality as a mental illness and do the exact same shit?
- mixmastamyk 4y agoTo conflate this with discrimination of the old days and use it as an excuse to prevent the ill from receiving care is contemptible. It's not like the government couldn't make you disappear if it wanted to badly enough already.
- ttpphd 4y agoSo is gun violence, the housing crisis, record levels of inequality, a deadly global pandemic, and anti-queer stochastic terror.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoNo comprendo.
- ROTMetro 4y agoRight, in the DSM 5 they 'voted' that being gay is no longer deviant behavior. What a rigorous scientific system mental health professionals use to diagnose disorders.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoMaybe you've never been around severely mentally ill folks, but I have and there is no doubt they exist. No doubt at all. Trying to skirt that by pointing to a blurry line at the border of "sanity" does these folks a great disservice I think. They deserve better care than they are getting now.