What if we *did* actually medicalize hard right, racist, and conspiracy theory victims? Hating them and yelling hasn't really fixed the problems, so why not try science about it?
… and whom would you want to entrust with the decision who needs to be medicalized?
The New York Times editorial board??
Do you think they wouldn't gleefully repeat historical precedent???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union
On a loosely related subject, aren't hard right, racist, and other various and sundry conspiracy theories the result of medicalization with OxyContin etc.????
@tatzelbrumm I don't think I'd trust any medical standards set by the NYT ed board, and while I may not love them, I'm confident in saying they wouldn't either.
There are many mental illnesses that used to be just considered evil, like bipolar and schizophrenia. Dissociative states used to be treated by beating people to death, turning them out into the wilderness, or imprisoning/killing them. We correctly see that as barbarous now.
@quinn
I wouldn't trust anyone's standards whom to medicalize for holding politically inopportune opinions
to have anything to do with medical standards.
This would work more like an Awareness Concept:
anything that deviates from a very narrow interpretation of a socially constructed in-group feeling
(thinking, let alone scientific reasoning, has very little to do with it)
will be considered pathological, and either ostracized or medicalized,
with pathology-by-association
(like, being on speaking terms with weev) running rampant.
Beware the Aware!
It's bad enough that they get to make decisions who's in or out of their jealously gated in-group.
They should never get anywhere near making decisions who needs to be medicalized for deviationism from their socially constructed narrow view of reality.
As for dissociative folks, nowadays, you turn them into wifi-cables.
But this must also not be mentioned, because such a transmogrification for the better ("E PLVRIBVS VNVM") is specifically intended to prove that the common Awareness Concepts in the hacker community are, to put it mildly, complete BS.
