Mentally ill suffer in sick health system.

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4. Oh it's like yesterday

when Idabiggs in a post calling for DU to have a automatic detector of prejudicial words uses prejudicial stigmatizing language against the mentally ill as an adjective.

It's like when people posting avatars of LGBT pride colors post headlines with stigmatizing language against the mentally ill. It's like when activist blogs like ALTERNET use stigmatizing language about the mentally ill to make their headline colorful and edgy... and everyone posting replies on DU cheers.

It's like all the cases when an activist group takes the liberty (aka privilege) to use stigmatizing language to construct statements (we good...them bad--like the mentally ill) to demonstrate membership, solidarity and support within their in-group at the cost of others on the outside.

It's a pretty common phenomenon in which groups claiming to seek social equality actually rely upon existing social hierarchy to demean a second party who oppress them via a comparison to a third group that is perceived as obviously worse in some dimension than the first group.

In a sense it's activist ableism and chauvinism that has special privilege in that it is excused of being seen as the use of prejudice and promotion of discrimination that it actually is.

You know it's because -obviously- good people in good causes can NEVER do bad things.