Social categories are powerful, have real-life impacts, and can be changed very quickly. Anyone can be categorized as disabled - yes, ANYONE - just as anyone can be categorized a terrorist. How you understand these terms won't undo those shifts.
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If you've been lucky enough to escape a social category that justifies your ongoing marginalization, I am honestly glad for you. But there is nothing objective or immutable keeping you safe.
So when "they" come for a social category, and apply a social construction to make someone's humanity conditional - you have to resist. You have to, if even only out of a sense of self-preservation, though hopefully it runs deeper in you than this.
So um yeah. Remember when MAGA invented "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to refer to folks who spoke out against Trump? Republicans just introduced a bill in the Minnesota Legislature to add this "syndrome" to the definition of mental illness.
Whether or not this has any chance of passing, there is certainly historical precedent for weaponizing mental illness - all disability really - against people in order to strip them of their rights an autonomy. Like Drapetomania, proposed as a category of mental illness in 1851 by Samuel Cartwright.
Hopefully you don't have to guess because you learned this in school. He suggested that conditions for enslaved Africans were so awesome, only mental illness could explain how any enslaved person would attempt to escape.
He was mocked at the time - and this Trump Derangement Syndrome is also laughable - but don't laugh too hard. For every ridiculed attempt to pathologize people for behaving rationally to the conditions they experience, there are examples of this being successful.
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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?f=SF2589&y=2025&ssn=0&b=senate
Guess.
Hopefully you don't have to guess because you learned this in school. He suggested that conditions for enslaved Africans were so awesome, only mental illness could explain how any enslaved person would attempt to escape.