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HereSince1628

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7. It's flat out what Wayne LaPierre -meant- when he talked about monsters among us.
Sun Jun 21, 2015, 03:56 PM
Jun 2015

But my unhappiness isn't really about that. I'm open to the notion that a person with mental disorders could commit mass murder, but then I'm also open to every strata of society having that potential.

What pisses me off is DUers is how it is a general disparagement. Something that isn't tolerated for many strata of DUers. And that wouldn't piss me off so much, but these DUers think they are liberal, and expressing empathy and solidarity when they employ references to mental disordes as disparagements. And that is precisely how prejudice and discrimination is maintained and spread from one generation to the the next. It's not liberal...it's bigoted, it's not progressive...it's hanging on to ignorance. And they do it as recreation.

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