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You cannot advocate to bring back an institution and then lie about what that institution was. The asylum institution was a way to label people as insane regard
by EatingWithForks 3y ago
You cannot advocate to bring back an institution and then lie about what that institution was. The asylum institution was a way to label people as insane regardless of their sanity and then subject them to heinous mistreatment for which they had no recourse. Unless you directly address this, you are simply advocating for the re-implementation of institutional abuse.
- phendrenad2 3y agoYou cannot interpret people's meaning however you want. If someone wants to "bring back asylums" it's entirely possible (and from the context here, very likely) that they want to bring "back" a version of asylums that never technically existed, but nevertheless both this new thing and the old thing are in the "asylums" category.
- EatingWithForks 3y agoIf you want to "bring back" something that never existed, you have to address what the thing actually was that you want to bring back-- and more importantly emphasize what will actually be different. You cannot merely lie about what that thing was you're bringing back, or handwave that its different now because the year is different. There is ample evidence that government officials will sexually assault people, traffic children, forcibly sterilize women, and starve/torture/kill/enslave men that they are responsible for in current day.
- phendrenad2 3y agoNo two things at different points in time are identical, so it's technically impossible to bring back something that did exist. I mean, while we're stuck on semantics, let's just do the full thing, no?
- mixmastamyk 3y agoIt's rather obtuse to suggest anyone is arguing to take a Delorian back to 1955 and bring back asylums completely intact with nurse Ratched. Yeah, how about full-service gas stations and Doowop hits too?