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It's too convenient to label bad people as mentally ill. What drove this young man was hate not mental illness. I understand why the non-mentally ill would like to exclude this violence from their potential, but we don't need to pathologize hate and murder. Hate is a normal human emotion. And hate is the motivator for most homicides. I see no reason why we need to separate hate that leads to an individual murder from hate that leads to mass murder.
This Is Not Really About Mental Illness. It Is Really About Misogyny
dailykos.com
Many of the city’s white residents, including Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, erroneously thought that something in the constitution of Black people kept them from catching the virus.18 So they pressed African Americans into service as nurses, caretakers, and gravediggers. Allen, Jones, and other members of the Free African Society were instrumental in tending to the city’s sick, with Allen himself falling ill and recovering.
The 1619 Project
Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine
Since then, Peter Doshi somehow managed to become an associate editor of <cite>The BMJ</cite>. How this happened, I have no idea, but periodically he publishes posts for <cite>The BMJ</cite> that are—to put it kindly—far below the standards that a medical journal with the history of <cite>The BMJ</cite> should ever associate itself with.
What the heck happened to The BMJ? | Science-Based Medicine
sciencebasedmedicine.org
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