Just a thought here, which doesn't at all dispute what you're saying re: people's thoughtlessness, but...
I know that personally when or if I use the word "crazy", I use it not to denote someone who has mental health issues, but someone who is acting badly, irrationally, insensibly, etc., all things which can happen apart from and outside of mental illness. In fact, I don't connect "crazy" with mental illness at all. Maybe a lot of people do (which I find wrong), but I wonder if not everyone does, and so therefore, they don't mean to imply that the Repubs are mentally ill, so much as just *wrong*.
If that makes sense. I totally see what you're saying, though.
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Date: 2010-03-24 04:52 pm (UTC)I know that personally when or if I use the word "crazy", I use it not to denote someone who has mental health issues, but someone who is acting badly, irrationally, insensibly, etc., all things which can happen apart from and outside of mental illness. In fact, I don't connect "crazy" with mental illness at all. Maybe a lot of people do (which I find wrong), but I wonder if not everyone does, and so therefore, they don't mean to imply that the Repubs are mentally ill, so much as just *wrong*.
If that makes sense. I totally see what you're saying, though.