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So is research that shows that mental illness has little link to violence. And, hell, so is homophobia! Let's say we make a law that says the state can black bag you and force you to take Abilify based on some arbitrary application of a psychology questionnaire by a state-employed psychologist; what's to say that a future administration doesn't reclassify homosexuality as a mental illness and do the exact same shit?

To conflate this with discrimination of the old days and use it as an excuse to prevent the ill from receiving care is contemptible.

It's not like the government couldn't make you disappear if it wanted to badly enough already.

Right, in the DSM 5 they 'voted' that being gay is no longer deviant behavior. What a rigorous scientific system mental health professionals use to diagnose disorders.

Maybe you've never been around severely mentally ill folks, but I have and there is no doubt they exist. No doubt at all.

Trying to skirt that by pointing to a blurry line at the border of "sanity" does these folks a great disservice I think. They deserve better care than they are getting now.

So is gun violence, the housing crisis, record levels of inequality, a deadly global pandemic, and anti-queer stochastic terror.

No comprendo.