Submitted by Pachamama
The recent news conferences by the top brass of the NYPD, though adumbrating the numerous manifestations about the ‘mental illness’ of Ismaaiyl Brinsly, has set a narrative which says that in spite of this mental dysfunction, Brinsly was a born killer. A killer of policemen. This one-dimensional narrative that Black people are simple-minded creatures and cannot be conflicted by the psychiatric dynamics Whites are normally given a pass for, was obvious. This is the type of racism which Welsing wrote about so persuasively, but there would have to be an absence of the breach of filth through the blood-brain barrier to reach this level of understand. (RR)
We are not convinced that modern medicine has any profound understandings about what they call psychiatric illnesses. That medicine can scientifically prove the existence of any mental illness. That there is reliability in diagnosis and treatment between and amongst physicians. That there are tests which can prove the presence of mental illnesses. Based on how the APA (American Psychiatric Association) has constructed the PDR (Physicians Desk Reference) even anxiety or anti-government or anti-police tendencies could, in themselves, be considered as mental illnesses.
What kind of a society would institute such a regime under the guise of helping people and at the same time close down a vast numbers of psychiatric hospitals while turning the jails and prisons into asylums? The streets to be inhabited by hordes needing help to function, beggars and struggling with a range of addictions. To some it may harken back to Josef Mengele, the infamous German medical experimentalist.
These are only but a few of the unproven illnesses that the APA has listed. There is a much longer list of so-called indicators of mental dysfunction. Those could include ADHD, refusal to inject children with dangerous vaccines, opposition to the activities of pharmaceutical companies, refusal to take psychotropic drugs, activists defending the environment, defensive actions against the mistreatment of animals etc.
But the NYPD’s propaganda news conferences had no interests in these matters. The bigwigs of the NYPD sought to downgrade the importance of what normally passes for mental dysfunction to elevate alleged ‘anti-police’ and ‘anti-government’ tendencies as more causal than mental dysfunction, per se. In this they were even confronting their own American Psychiatric Association guidelines and what erroneously passes for science, medicine. They purpose was clear – to further criminalize mental dysfunction by pretending it did not exist in the case of Brinsly and stain peaceful demonstrators with this criminal act.
So we have another significant contradiction between what the practice of the APA is and what the NYPD was trying to do for propaganda purposes. As a result nobody has any compassion whatsoever for Brinsly. Not that his actions should be defended or encouraged, of course not, but compassion not only for the policemen but for their families and the family of Brinsly and indeed Brinsly himself should be the most desired and humane response. Not criminalization or generalization to a movement or Black people.
We have enough problems as things are. What’s more, the APA even finds legal, maybe medical, differences between insanity and mental illness. This layer of added self-proclaimed confusion may have more to do with money than health. Even the criminal justice system that the NYPD is part of mandates pharmaceuticals by force of law. In all this, the diagnosis that racism itself is a psychiatric disease escapes definition.
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