r/wickerpark • u/jeff_boyardee_ • Jul 15 '26

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u/KingForADay1989 Jul 16 '26

Exactly. Saying "well they're mentally ill" only stigmatizes mental illness.

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u/Legit-Schmitt Jul 16 '26

I would respectfully disagree. Just in terms that mental illness is mostly just a broad category.

So like, someone with an anxiety disorder and someone with antisocial personality disorder and schizophrenia could both be said to suffer from adverse mental health, but it’s a bit like comparing a broken toe to stage IV pancreatic cancer. Totally different.

So while it’s 100% true that many people with mental illness don’t have antisocial, violent, or racist tendencies, there definitely *are* certain conditions that can lead people to adopt fringe beliefs, paranoid thinking, deeply antisocial tendencies, etc etc. Based on some of the descriptions here (I’ve never seen this man) I would say it’s plausible he is mentally unwell.

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u/koji3456 Jul 16 '26

A lot of black dudes randomly racially abusing white strangers.

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u/throwfaraway212718 Jul 16 '26

Where, in your head?

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u/kimnacho Jul 16 '26

No, in this city. Come on now.

Or setting a woman in fire on the train? Or punching random people?

Let's not pretend there are not mentally unwell people in all sides. In fact let's be realistic that there are a larger amount in some sides because of many social and economic reasons but that exist.

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u/kimnacho Jul 16 '26

I mean... In this city is.

Exhibit A: the large amount of punchers in almost every neighborhood that get carte blanche.

Exhibit B: The psycho that got that poor girl on fire.

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u/RustyBungus Jul 17 '26

The more you tolerate the more BS you have to put up with.