re: #275 The Ghost of a Flea

“Mentally ill” is another one of those words that doesn’t mean anything when they say it.

It’s just a place-holder for whatever they need to fit in there.

Want to disavow someone taking wingnut logic to its violent conclusion? Mentally ill.
Want to dismiss a critic as fundamentally and incontrovertibly unserious? Mentally ill.

I suspect if they ever did apply themselves to defining mental illness, their standards would be like those of the Soviets….

I hear that from my family quite a bit… “they’re sick” or “they’re crazy”… and when I point out that, no, in fact, they left a manifesto proclaiming their beliefs, I get “you have to be crazy to shoot up a bunch of people like that.”