the issue of mental illness in context of mass shootings is complicated, despite shooters generally being thoroughly fucked in the head, by the commitment on the woke left that mental illness, being a term of sympathy, is reserved for victim-coded people
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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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I don’t know that many folks, left leaning or not, would classify Islamic terrorists as mentally ill. I’ve mostly seen that label applied to non-Islamic domestic terrorists (by both sides) irrespective of race.
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yeah, and that's interesting because while racism is obviously in it, it's not just that. the existence of a suicide agent indoctrination program going back to Hasan i Sabbah puts us in "brainwashing" territory, which for some reason we don't think of as a form of mental illness
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Given that 40% of Americans have something that could reasonably called a "mental illness", using that as a sieve for identifying potential mass murderers is ludicrously useless.
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it sure is! is there a reason the field of utility automatically narrows to finding people to paint a target on?https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1158385560295288833 …
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