infectedwithnyanites:gunsandfireandshit: kamoi: I know I’ve already reblogged this but I thoug

infectedwithnyanites:gunsandfireandshit: kamoi: I know I’ve already reblogged this but I thought it was worth mentioning that medicine covering for racial violence is nothing new Let’s not forget how black people who pursued civil rights were diagnosed as schizophrenic https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-02544-000 Hmm I wonder why someone who has just been electrocuted and is being forcibly restrained would enter into a panic and frantically resist? Surely nothing about this situation would register to the brain as a serious danger to one’s safety and naturally trigger one’s instinctual fight or flight response? No it must be the fault of an obscure mental illness I’ve just invented. [Image caption: bullet point from the Wikipedia page “List of disorders characterized as pseudoscience”, reading as follows.]Excited delirium, originally identified by pathologist Charles Wetli to account for the deaths of nineteen Black prostitutes due to “sexual excitement” while under the influence of cocaine; the women later turned out to be victims of a serial killer.[26] The condition is primarily found in people under police restraint, especially after being Tasered,[27] and, while it is not in the ICD-10 or DSM-5, it is promoted by a number of doctors, many of whom are on the payroll of Axon, the manufacturer of Tasers.[27][Then the header of the Wikipedia page “Drapetomania”, as follows.]Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity.[1]: 41  Slave life was so pleasant, the official view was, that only the mentally ill would want to run away. In actuality, the desire for freedom is a natural human impulse.[2][3][End captions.] -- source link

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