Thursday, May 22, 2025

Trump, RFK Jr. are trying to bring back the horrors of the insane asylum 

"…President Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others are pushing for expanded involuntary commitment and large-scale psychiatric confinement, frequently conflating "mental illness" with criminality. These narratives draw on longstanding aesthetic and political associations between mental health and dangerousness — what scholars describe as the rationalization of law and policy to manage disability through control, not care…"


 

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