[mandaladon]

“How helpful is calling a black person the n-word? Not only is it disrespectful, it fans racism,” said Pat Corrigan, a distinguished professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology who manages the National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment. “Using such language when it comes to people with mental illness is the height of disrespect and the height of ignorance, as it reduces some hugely complex person down to a diagnosis.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Trump was referring to one specific individual who just murdered a bunch of kids...

[gasport]

National Consortium on Stigma and Empowerment

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

[Lady Heron]

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.

[Chewbarkah]

“...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.

[freeandfreezing]

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.

[MarineBrat]

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

[Rebelbase]

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

[GnuThere]

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

[windsorknot]

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

[G Larry]

Why is CNN worried about Stigmatizing shooters?

[miss marmelstein]

Gee, I like stigmatizing mass killers.

[Jane Long]

CNN is #FakeNews #SnowflakeNews

[goodnesswins]

Takes one to know one. Eh, CNN?

[Grampa Dave]

Is it real, or did you hear/see it on CNN!

[Retvet]

No Trump should not call them sickos. He should call CNN (Communist colluding network) a cesspool of SICKOS.

[right way right]

Roaming demonic possessed beast would suffice, it takes up too many characters in a tweet though.

[JimRed]

Beside, weirdo is a bit more accurate.

[SunStar]

CNN: Trump Shouldn’t Call Mass Shooter A ‘Sicko’ Because It’s Stigmatizing

Yes, but by all means, let's encroach on the entire country's natural rights and vilify the weapon used instead.

This animal killed 17 people, he IS a sicko, and the ONLY one that needs to be "vilified". He IS a villain.

[ExGeeEye]

Some folks just need killin’. For now stigmatzin’ will have to do.

[Gumdrop]

CNN - so worries about stigmatizing a shooter by calling him a sicko, reflecting on other mental health patients.

I wonder how much concern they have with calling Trump and his supporters all sorts of demeaning names, like oh.......... Hitler, Satan, deplorables, Nazis, bitter clingers, Christians [those nasty people], Islamophobics, racists, etc.

[M Kehoe]

You know, I need some comic relief. I think I’ll go watch CNN.

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