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Treating political dissent as mental illness has a long and distinguished history.woke wedding drone posted:The history of psychiatry is rooted in society's impetus to control others, and was created in a time when cruelty as a part of that control was seen as necessary and acceptable. The only reason cruelty (which all far-right adherents believe in) is not classified as a mental illness in itself is because of this white male legacy of power and control. Is being a jerk mental illness? Should the Nuremberg trials really have been therapy sessions?
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Jenner posted:I agree that, at the time, abolition was an extreme left position. However, AFAIK, it was not supported by conspiracy theories and paranoia. (I might be wrong?) Abolitionists rallied against Southern Slave Power, which their opponents said was a conspiracy. Up until about the Civil Rights era statements like this from Kingfisher would still probably be regarded as conspiracy theory to many historians: The Kingfish posted:The slave system needed expansion to survive and the South wouldn't have allowed itself to be choked out like that- they would have sent filibusters to Cuba and eventually down through South America. It does seem like some abolitionists assumed there was a conspiracy killing Northern senators, so they did seem to go into crazy stuff sometimes. I'm not a historian tho
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