You can have mental issues while still having a choice to be like that
If that makes a sense
Maybe mentally ill isn't the exact word but they definitely have mental issues that they need intense therapy for.
If that makes a sense
Maybe mentally ill isn't the exact word but they definitely have mental issues that they need intense therapy for.
The problem is not mental, it's political and structural. And the reason why we - materialist - absolutely refuse to call it "mental", is because it individualize the problem. It shift the blame on a personnal issue in this case a mental issue, to avoid talking about a structural problem that is the reason why those person acts like this.
As Marx perfectly explained : It is not consciousness that determines life, but life that determines consciousness.
This means that the problem does not come from people, but the system shaped by the people (even if it doesn't mean we should deresponsibilize the people inside the system). And in this case, making it personnal through a mental issue or a mental illness will inevitably resonnate on people suffering from ableism. As the behavior will be inevitably perpetuated as it is already a perpetuation of the domination system that is ableism.
If you understand this. You will not only start to become a real leftist, but you will bypass the simple radical phase toward materialism. And trust me, if you do that, your ENTIRE vision of the world will shift.
(Don't think that I'm focusing on this for no reason. I believe now that it will be much more productive to include people like you or soft leftist here who are closer to me into this form of radical materialist thinking than trying to include Nameless or Ravager or Herrera who don't want to listen anyway.)