In America black people are diagnosed schizophrenic or psychotic because they talk about institutional racism to white clinicians that don't believe them
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Somewhat relatedly, the W Bush administration expanded mental health screening and recordskeepint, and broadened the use of somewhat dangerous antipsychotics for non psychotic conditions in the wake of the Patriot Act.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Freedom_Commission_on_Mental_Health
Russia does it too; transexual? Mental illness.
Did I forget to say they also forbid "mentally ill" people to have a driving permit?
Not just trans people— all LGBTQ+ people are regarded this way
USSR never went away. And if you dig deeper, it's still just russian empire in a trench coat
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The Soviet Union at its height had the largest percentage of incarcerated individuals, more than double the USA's percentage of the population today. These were hard labor camps, too, where millions worked until they died.
and yet people romanticise and justify that shit
I've had a Tankie write me a 10 page essay comment, with citations, about how great the 1930s economy was. The middle of a famine.
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The problem is psychiatry in general. Always been a tool for hegemonic control.
Pretty sure America does that.
They certainly are trying with calling people who hate Trump by calling it "Trump Derangement Syndrome."
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From the article, western sources claim some 15k people affected over the entirety of the Soviet Union. So yeah, something that did happen, but still quite a minor thing for a country with 300 million people over 70+ years of existence.
For comparison, over 700k people experience homelessness today in the USA, which is arguably at least as damaging to mental (let alone physical health), and if we count the number of people who have experienced homelessness over the past 70 years in the USA it's several million if not tens of millions.
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This sounds very familiar to the CIA's practices with MK Ultra... although in a different way.
Goes to show, that neither system would be optimal - and that it's better to chase the path of democratic socialist movements.
It’s crazy to me that many people think ‘this is what communism does’ when it’s actually what authoritarianism does. You can get authoritarianism all over the spectrum, in anything from communism to fascism.
This isn’t a feature of any political ideology – rather it’s a feature of letting sociopaths gain power.
The US is trying to do this now, what with declaring the bogeyman known as antifa a mental illness AND a terrorist threat.
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“Liberalism is a mental disease!”
A phrase often said by MAGAs. It’s no distance at all saying the same thing about nationalism.
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