Since some of you don't read GD - about the whole Stockholm Syndrome thing

[Autumn]

8. Banning the use of the words Stockholm Syndrome would make the "discussion impossible" but

ban a long tern member for posting articles using it. Interesting

But, like all things psychological assigning it by long-distance amateur psychologists is obviously questionable. But isn't it a bit curious that in the bigoted exchanges between political camps on DU such attribution of mental disorders to opponents is very common and actually accepted by Duers in general and the site's Admin in particular ? Indeed in a DU email response to me asking for controlling stigmatizing language, Skinner wrote that the Admin thought a rule to ban using stigmatizing language about mental disorders would make 'discussion' impossible.

Stigmatizing language is accepted as pragmatic by the Admin in making conversation go, So, what's up with the outrage of the use of Stockholm Syndrome?