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CNN: Trump Shouldn’t Call Mass Shooter A ‘Sicko’ Because It’s Stigmatizing
Hot Air ^ | 23 Feb 2018 | John Sexton

Posted on 02/23/2018 6:43:32 AM PST by mandaladon

This strikes me as really pushing for any excuse to attack Trump for any reason whatsoever. CNN has a whole story devoted to shaming Trump for calling the Parkland shooter a “sicko” on the grounds that it’s stigmatizing to people with mental health problems who aren’t all mass shooters of children. From CNN:

In a tweet Thursday, President Donald Trump described someone who would shoot up a school as a “savage sicko.” At CNN’s town hall on the Parkland, Florida, school shootings on Wednesday, NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch described the gunman as “an insane monster” who is “nuts” and crazy.” And at a White House briefing Thursday, the President again used the term “sicko.”

The shooter, Nikolas Cruz, struggled with depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, according to a 2016 Florida Department of Children and Families report. But having a mental health diagnosis does not mean he would become violent, many experts say. And although Trump has said he wants to focus on mental health to stop school shootings, calling Cruz a “sicko” doesn’t help, those experts claim…

“When it comes to mental health, language really matters. This is not about being politically correct. It’s about wanting to do everything we can to encourage people to get health treatment that works,” said Ron Honberg, senior policy adviser with the National Alliance on Mental Illness…

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: clintonnonnews; cnn; danaloesch; florida; mediawingofthednc; nikolascruz; parkland; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; trump
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To: mandaladon
CNN thinks "normal" people, people just like them, are mass murderers.

How many people have died because CNN, as a matter of policy, cuddled up to and laud brutal dictators just to 'maintain access'?

21 posted on 02/23/2018 7:01:31 AM PST by null and void ("If you see something say something." "If we say something *DO* something!!!")
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To: bert

Back in the good old days, when teenage pregnancy was stigmatized, there wasn’t much teenage pregnancy.


22 posted on 02/23/2018 7:02:25 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: mandaladon

Why doesn’t CNN just go away? Do they try to be sensational -—— just to get attention??


23 posted on 02/23/2018 7:04:56 AM PST by Exit148 (OH LORD, Your children need you. (Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: mandaladon

Hey, CNN...https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0386032/
Hahahaha!
Ha


24 posted on 02/23/2018 7:08:18 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: mandaladon

National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment

????????????????


25 posted on 02/23/2018 7:09:19 AM PST by gasport (Smash the Beast - starvation takes too long)
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To: mandaladon

Democrats goal is to destroy the fabric of society so the masses demand protection in the form of a police state. Destroying the ability to point out wrong behavior and the ability to criticize that behavior, is the goal for this step in the plan. They are slow walking the American people into enslavement to government run by an elite few.


26 posted on 02/23/2018 7:10:34 AM PST by Lady Heron
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To: mandaladon

“...Nikolas Cruz, struggled with depression, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, according to a 2016 Florida Department of Children and Families report. But having a mental health diagnosis does not mean he would become violent...”

It’s the left’s oldest friend, the Man Of Straw. Neither President Trump nor anyone else has said that every person with mental health problems is a “savage sicko”. “Savage sicko, insane maniac”, etc., describe the tiny subset who go on violence and murder sprees. How do these psychology experts explain Cruz’s behavior? Was it “rational” or “normal”? Did Cruz’s mental problems have nothing to do with his utter lack of empathy, uncontrolled anger, failure to see consequences? Or was mass murder an “unfortunate choice” that had nothing to do with his mental illnesses?

Perversely, these “experts” are stigmatizing millions of individuals with controllable mental health issues by refusing to differentiate between levels of mental problems.


27 posted on 02/23/2018 7:11:16 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: mandaladon
I wonder what Professor Corrigan thinks Empowerment means to somebody like Cruz who wants to become a professional school shooter?

Personally, I don't think empowering people to conduct massacres of unarmed people is a good idea.

Nobody is applying the characterization of Cruz to anybody else except Prof. Corrigan. If shooting innocent teenagers isn't the definition of a "sicko" then what is?

It is sad to watch liberal logic at work. Trying to prevent dangerous mentally ill people from causing tragedies is somehow a bad thing since it stigmatizes mentally ill people who aren't dangerous. But, stigmatizing and discriminating against millions of perfectly healthy, non-violent gun owners who are actually helping to protect our nation is fine.

28 posted on 02/23/2018 7:11:42 AM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: Lady Heron

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29 posted on 02/23/2018 7:16:18 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: mandaladon

Handing out STIGMA is something that there needs to be much more of.


30 posted on 02/23/2018 7:20:30 AM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: mandaladon

Back in the day when we called them sickos, loonies, psychos, etc. there weren’t any school shootings.


31 posted on 02/23/2018 7:22:40 AM PST by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: mandaladon

CNN is a stigma.
There, I didn’t call them sicko, so it must be OK.


32 posted on 02/23/2018 7:23:54 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: mandaladon

CNN, clean up your own house before lecturing and preaching to others.


33 posted on 02/23/2018 7:26:06 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: mandaladon

Why is CNN worried about Stigmatizing shooters?


34 posted on 02/23/2018 7:27:56 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: mandaladon

Gee, I like stigmatizing mass killers.


35 posted on 02/23/2018 7:29:48 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: TTFlyer

CNN is ISIS

Nah. At least we could drop bombs on Isis and wipe them out. I don’t know what can be done with CNN.


36 posted on 02/23/2018 7:30:07 AM PST by Pravious
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To: mandaladon

CNN is #FakeNews #SnowflakeNews


37 posted on 02/23/2018 7:30:42 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bert; All

OK, “sicko” might be he wrong term. Then use the right one, “pure evil subhuman.”


38 posted on 02/23/2018 7:32:59 AM PST by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Sicko seems right on target


39 posted on 02/23/2018 7:34:21 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: mandaladon

Takes one to know one. Eh, CNN?


40 posted on 02/23/2018 7:46:47 AM PST by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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