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I have come across some things on here that I find both disturbing and hurtful and just want to vent about it. I am personally very hurt by ableist/saneist language and would like to just make that known. Here are some of my thoughts on using the word "crazy" to describe bad people and their behavior:
Be careful how you use that word “Crazy”. No one should be judged based on a diagnosis, and no one should be diagnosed from an armchair. No one. I do not like, or respect Donald Trump in any way. I believe he is a sexual predator, a racist, an ableist, and hates the poor. I consider what I dislike about Trump to be to do with his actions and his character, not his possible mental distress. Both his actions and his beliefs are possible for a sane person to exhibit and I will not excuse his evil, hateful behavior with the term “crazy”. Our dislike of a person does not excuse our own use of abliest attitudes and attacks on them. Have we ever stopped to consider that by calling Trump “crazy” that we the diagnosed, the mad, the disabled, the neurodivergent, will suffer even more stigma at the hands of the sane, able folks? I’m one crazy ***** and I do not want to be put in a box with hateful bigots!
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