The Soviets used to stuff dissidents into insane asylums. "If you disagree with our perfect system, you must be crazy".
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Exactly
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It annoys me that even most people on the right have completely fallen for it. I'm not saying the entire concept of "mental illness" is all wrong, but let's be careful about it
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An aspect of being careful is policy that enables mental health professionals to work. Yes, there were abuses prior to the mid-20th c. but the policy of opening the asylums will lead to the public demanding a solution and that’s when things get politicized and weaponized.
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Being careful = limiting the concept of "mental illness" to the truly insane
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Yes, but I don’t want the govt making the call on what that means. One more reason to object to national healthcare.
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An unkind but counterintuitive take: Exclusion & bullying are natural & unconscious “social immune system” that seeks to protect the tribe from parasitic & other dangerous individuals. Instead of listening to these instincts, we counter them with phony “inclusiveness.”
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What some see as unkindness, bullying or homophobia may actually be natural psychosocial reaction to expel elements that are dangerous to the cohesion & survival of the tribe. Now extreme self conscious egalitarian quasi religious reprogramming tries to contravene the instinct.
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Protect the tribe from parasitic or dangerous people? Well I'd say that bullying is generally directed at harmless kids who are: 1. Small 2. Ugly 3. Socially unskilled and/or 4. Otherwise weird It does protect group conformity/traits but not so much from dangerous or parasitic
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Everyone seems to have a different idea of what bullying looks like, who gets bullied, and why it happens. I think rarely are the guys at the top of the hierarchy bullying guys at the bottom. Isn’t it usually the guys right above them?
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Sure, but the list above has to do with who's on the bottom
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On the other hand it might be a bad route to go. “Why did you think those evil thoughts, you hate criminal?!” Im not a hate criminal; I’m just suffering from a mental illness
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Forced "treatments"...
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Tying this into another topic regarding education—kids don’t read cuz it would require them to think...perhaps on subjects such as this one. Brave New Fahrenheit 1984 Clockwork Coo-coo’s Nest—all taboo now, literary dissent, written by mentally disturbed crypto proto fascists
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Mental illness overton window will always be adjusted to fit exact ideological measurements - Foucault and Uncle Ted understood
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Efforts to treat anti-Semitism as a mental illness are almost as old as psychiatry itself (((for some strange reason)))
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Meanwhile “gender dysphoria” or whatever fashionable politically correct we’re supposed to use now is something to celebrate without stigma, but also “treat” with many radical & extravagant surgeries as well as a lifetime of pharmaceutical, medical & psychotherapeutic treatment.
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