that is, people of oppressed identities can be mentally ill; cishet white males don't have mental illness, they have toxic masculinity and racism instead. this follows from the term calling for resources to be allocated to help; heretical resource allocation must be stamped out
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goddamn shame if mass shooting predicts mental illness but mental illness doesn't predict mass shootings so if we want to reduce mass shootings we have to make things better for everyonehttps://twitter.com/LightningShade0/status/1158384829852979201 …
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if only there were a way to respond to right-wing politicians and journalists being shitty other than loading their shittiness into Photoshop and hitting Color > Inverthttps://twitter.com/alexkyllo/status/1158380866378190848 …
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it's honestly sickening that if you even talk about mass shootings and mental illness in the same breath, you are instantly assumed to be talking about using diagnosis to take rights away from people, not increasing access to care and improving public mental health outcomes
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it would be nice to think that it's the government that, if a problem can't be solved by hurting somebody, not only doesn't know how to solve it, doesn't *want* to know how to solve it but it isn't it's people just people
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well, I guess it's a matter of specificity, which is to some degree a question of effort sincerity. It is probably true that a lot of "MI talk" is a stalking horse for "removing guns from undesirables" but it is also probably true that people who
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That is due to reactionary politicians and journalists reserving mental illness language for white male shooters and reserving terrorism discourse for non-white shooters
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