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20. He is definitely at the age where schizophrenia often begins to manifest itself.

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 07:17 PM

Jun 2015

He was probably a racist asshole beforehand. That is a bad combination, and it would be no surprise if these two things worked together to short-circuit his three-volt brain.

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Here we go with the mental illness bullshit [View all] bigdarryl Jun 2015 OP

To be fair, he is mentally ill in that as a white, privileged American, he, like many randys1 Jun 2015 #1

Racism is a mental illness. Kalidurga Jun 2015 #3

THen big problem with Reagan closing all the mental facilities, given we have at least randys1 Jun 2015 #4

30 million sounds about right. Kalidurga Jun 2015 #8

At least name a symptom recognized by the APA that is linked to racism. HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #19

Voting Republican. SwankyXomb Jun 2015 #27

Forgive me, but that's really irrational bordering to the point of tauntingly, purposefully HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #32

I call upon you to provide the name of the mental disorder HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #18

Pathological Bias Kalidurga Jun 2015 #35

As you say not in the DSM which is to say just plain CRAP. HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #37

No pedophiles don't get away with that, rapist don't get away with that, most murderers... Kalidurga Jun 2015 #38

NAME THE DISORDER. You made the claim. Now fit it to a nosology HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #39

There are 200 classified mental illnesses Kalidurga Jun 2015 #40

And thereby you avoid the accepted nosology. What makes your view exceptional and correct? HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #41

I am sorry I am ahead of the curve. Kalidurga Jun 2015 #42

The DSM I wasn't the standard in 2005, or 1995 or 1985 or 1975 HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #44

Yes, I have met a stable racist. You seem to be defining "mental illness" quite broadly uppityperson Jun 2015 #26

Holy shit! All our candidates are mentally ill? NT hughee99 Jul 2015 #45

Saw it too mcar Jun 2015 #2

Killing people for their race, is not is not a sign of sanity. immoderate Jun 2015 #5

End of story, I agree . And while Democracy is hanging in the balance, MSM orpupilofnature57 Jun 2015 #6

Well adjusted people don't join white supremacy groups Warpy Jun 2015 #7

...or kill people leftstreet Jun 2015 #9

ignorant ones do, the German population wasn't given Zantax after industrialized murder ... uponit7771 Jun 2015 #10

Zantac? Ulcers? Warpy Jun 2015 #11

Yes ulcer medicine when we're talking about mental illness cause I couldn't mean anything uponit7771 Jun 2015 #13

I agree. Plus, I think "mental illness" is too broad a term. Gregorian Jun 2015 #15

My father is a retired district attorney Ex Lurker Jun 2015 #12

He probably IS mentally ill. Doesn't stop him from being a terrorist and bigot. Lizzie Poppet Jun 2015 #14

Lizzie: that is correct... PCIntern Jun 2015 #16

"Fucked up" is not in the DSM-5th Edition and is not an excuse. NightWatcher Jun 2015 #17

He is definitely at the age where schizophrenia often begins to manifest itself. hifiguy Jun 2015 #20

He's at the age where MANY mental disorders are near their peak incidence rates. HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #21

That was my point, though I didn't set it forth clearly. hifiguy Jun 2015 #22

I haven't read any accounts that suggest he's schizophrenic...I may have missed them HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #23

I simply think it is premature to say that the punk hifiguy Jun 2015 #24

IMO agnosticism is appropriate at this time HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #25

Yup. Let the headshrinkers have a go at him hifiguy Jun 2015 #28

I simply think it is premature to say that the punk was "definitely" mentally ill, as some on this uppityperson Jun 2015 #29

No unlicensed person who hasn't interviewed the person and reviewed records HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #33

I agree. I have changed over the last couple years, fwiw uppityperson Jun 2015 #34

Yes, and it generates discrimination against the mentally ill. Did you know that unemployment HereSince1628 Jun 2015 #36

Agree AuntPatsy Jun 2015 #30

It really irritates me that people automatically claim racist murderers Jamastiene Jun 2015 #31

Yep! nt valerief Jun 2015 #43