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There are specific reasons to be wary of the way psychiatric diagnosis is used vs. other insults: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry ht
by bondarchuk 4y ago
There are specific reasons to be wary of the way psychiatric diagnosis is used vs. other insults: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry
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- AlexandrB 4y agoBy that token, the same wariness should be applied to calling someone a "Communist" thanks to McCarthyism. I think this might be a valid point if US government officials were calling Kanye mentally ill, but a bunch of people on the internet?
- bondarchuk 4y agoStrictly speaking nothing matters cuz we're all just rando's typing on the internet. But since we were having a discussion I thought I'd chime in with some vaguely relevant points... Btw I think it would've been quite dangerous indeed to call someone a communist during mccarthy era, and indeed one should've been wary of that back then.
- AlexandrB 4y agoI think the parallel stands. A lot of the egregious political abuse of mental illness in the US dates back to 50-100 years ago[1]. You don't hear about public figures being involuntarily committed over accusations of mental illness in recent years. The worst you get is accusations of senility against some of America's older politicians. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry#...