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Calling people insane just because they ethically/politically disagree with you leads to bad places. Although I'm also skeptical of the concept of sanity as it's being currently applied anyway, so I guess I might be biased a bit.  Nah. Sethex posted:Honestly I don't think mental illness is the right title, I like the title 'narrativists' from the thread on decoding authoritarianism. No. That thread is an amazing insight into the cultish mentality of a subset of American fringe loons, particularly fundamentalists. PJ's analysis of them is interesting, especially since she used to be one, and has shown itself to be surprisingly accurate in trying to guess what they'll do next. But a lot of goons there creep me the gently caress out with their tendency to blame literally everything they disagree with on the type of mental illness PJ is describing, and also trying to steer PJ out of her fairly limited in scope but insightful and intelligent attempt to find the root of that particular brand of crazy and guide her into talking about their pet topics.
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Extreme0 posted:Hiter wasn't insane, he was just having a bad day is all. 'Some A are B' does not equal 'all B are A'
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Lobsterhead posted:People really need to stop using mental illness as a synonym for bad/wrong/dangerous. I agree with you. I'd like to clarify something - to understand the particular use of it in my post, I'd really suggest reading PJ's threads. The one about Accelerated Christian Education even more than her current one, though I suggest bracing for a horrifying read. She is a trans woman who has schizophrenia (for which she is taking proper treatment) and absolutely has experience with both real mental illness and something that the people around her treated as one, despite not being so. I absolutely will call an A.C.E. indoctrinated mindset "crazy"
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