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In reply to the discussion: "Muslim shooter=entire religion guilty, Black shooter=entire race guilty, White shooter=mentally [View all]De Leonist
(225 posts)White shooter = mentally troubled lone wolf=All the Mentally Ill are untrustworthy potential murderers
This one leads to laws that just end up stigmatizing us even more regardless of our race, gender, or creed.
It'd be nice for once if the status quo actually took our issues seriously.
But than hey it's like that Scott Walker staffer said "Nobody cares about crazy people,"
Please don't misunderstand me though, I don't mean to say that this issue with Ferguson and the shooting of unarmed black suspects by some incredibly ill trained and bigoted white police officers isn't an important issue. It absolutely is, however much in the same way that Black Americans seem to have the sins of a handful of gang members thrown on them despite how law abiding they are so too are the Mentally Ill judged and condemned collectively for the actions of a small group mass shooters. A number which don't even seem to have any history of Mental Illness.