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this is a garbage take. mental illness doesn’t make you a shitty person or cause you to have shitty politics.
you know what does make you a shitty person, though?
- speculating about someone’s diagnosis.
- using “bipolar” as shorthand for “unpredictable”
- conflating racism & xenophobia with mental illness
- perpetuating stigma against mental illness
- speculating about someone’s diagnosis.
- using “bipolar” as shorthand for “unpredictable”
- conflating racism & xenophobia with mental illness
- perpetuating stigma against mental illness
is it possible he suffers from a mental illness? SURE.
1 in 5 americans have a mental illness. 1 in 25 have a 'serious' mental illness, like bipolar disorder. it affects folks across the political spectrum. because people with mental illness are just PEOPLE. we're just like you.
1 in 5 americans have a mental illness. 1 in 25 have a 'serious' mental illness, like bipolar disorder. it affects folks across the political spectrum. because people with mental illness are just PEOPLE. we're just like you.
fighting the "nazis are just crazy!" narrative doesn't mean there aren't fucking fascists out there with mental illness. the two are neither mutually exclusive nor universally co-occurring.
being mentally ill makes you neither evil nor noble. what people tend to forget, though, is that it makes you TEN TIMES more likely to be the VICTIM of crime and LESS likely to be the perpetrator of violent crime.
writing off everyone you don't like as mentally ill is not only not supported by the facts, it's fucking dangerous.
and, to be quite honest, writing off all white supremacists & fascists as "just crazy" is a cop out. it lets us shirk the responsibility of dismantling toxic masculinity & white supremacy, the real root causes of these ideologies.
every time you shrug off some nazi as "just crazy," you're erasing the work of your comrades who live with mental illness. you're perpetuating violence against us.
so many of the fiercest anti-fascist fighters i know live with mental illness. it is one of the many axes of oppression that brings people to this fight. we're out here struggling for collective liberation & fighting like hell. don't you dare count us out.
i forgot posting online was the equivalent of inserting a token into the bad take machine. i’ve hit the jackpot, though, and they’re just spewing out all over the place! 
