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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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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Chaos Retweeted Lightning_Shade
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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Replying to @chaosprime
thank you for being brave enough to delve into this in ways im too cowardly and low-insight to speak about except in vague subtweets
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Replying to @TRULY_RELAXED @chaosprime
yeah, +1 brave and +1 insightful
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my take: A. if you can convince someone of an absurdity, you can get them to commit atrocities B. holding incorrect (absurd) beliefs is not mental illness
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i don't think that's really true for the usual, epistemic usage of "believe", though i think the convincing has to go very deep before the atrocities are enabled, atrocities that haven't been socially normalized at least and that that convincing isn't all that unlike a disease
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Replying to @chaosprime @TRULY_RELAXED
yes, this is where language clouds the discussion. Memetic infection behaves very much as a contagious disease, but is different from mental illness that is typically viewed as a “hardware problem” as opposed to a software one.
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Replying to @MeFromBefore @TRULY_RELAXED
yeah, it'd totally help to be able to distinguish neurogenic issues from cognogenic issues, for which purpose it would totally help if they were actually empirically distinct
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