tatterdemalionamberite:

apparentlyeverything:

si-vis-amari-amo:

soulsoaker:

datclassydame:

soulsoaker:

this might be a bit of a reach but in the wake of so-called “progressives” advocating for creating a list of mentally ill people and handing it over to the cops, on top of things like forced institutionalization and universities expelling students who they deem too crazy to function, I do not want to hear ANY of you people whining about why we don’t just see a doctor and Start Recovering.

Just either admit you have no fucking clue how dangerous it can be to live at the mercy of incompetent bureaucracies that convinced themselves they can do no harm, or that you’re just annoyed that mentally ill people write things where you can see them. Fuck off

Source, please?

One of the Parkland demands is changing healthcare privacy laws so mental healthcare providers can communicate with law enforcement  which for obvious reasons totally misses the causes of gun violence (the Parkland shooter was a white supremacist) and puts the lives of patients in the hands of a doctor’s opinion. This is going to kill people, especially Black people, and discourage many more from seeking healthcare. People with mental illnesses already make up about half of all people shot and killed by police.

It’s really disturbing how people spent years trying to debunk the “mentally ill people are murderers” myth whenever right-wingers used it to attack gun control but the moment you get some cute white kids to say crazy people should be locked up everyone’s cool with it. scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds

I’ve seen this a few times, and I just want to say that if you look at the actual March for Our Lives webpage, marchforourlives.com, it says nothing about changing healthcare privacy laws. Specifically, this link lists what they want to change. Also, if you look at which students wrote the editorial, none of them are the ones that have been organizing the march, and the Guardian article is not listed on the website under their press section. 

Many of the students at Parkland may have different demands, and it’s important to distinguish who you’re talking about because of that. You can’t just say Parkland as a whole.

The manifesto published in the Guardian was written by editors from the school newspaper. As mentioned above, it’s not the position of the march organizers, and it’s been widely criticized by progressives/liberals on twitter who support gun control. It’s the pro-gun lobby and its supporters who’ve been trying to frame this as a “mental health” issue instead, and they’re the ones pushing for these kind of changes as a way to derail gun control. The fact that it showed up on this one list doesn’t mean that liberals have suddenly adopted this position. The gun control movement isn’t relying on 17 year olds to write their policy positions. 

I’ve heard that the student organizers in question have been trying to direct attention off of themselves and toward black student movements in interviews and that this has been HEAVILY underreported unless you watch said interviews directly.

So it’s not a big surprise to me that we’re getting some (additional kinds of) spin about them right now.