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The #SeaTac highjacker is the perfect example of how we handle narratives of mental health. Only a white man who jacked a fucking plane, took off and flew it over Tacoma/the sound would be eulogized in essays on mental illness.
The #SeaTac highjacker is an example of how only white people are allowed to suffer from mental illness and have that be the core narrative of their meltdowns, of their failures, of their actions. People of color are never allowed to be mentally ill, just monsters.
If a man of color had done this--- and if this man turns out to be a PoC, the narrative around this meltdown will transform overnight. We will stop talking about mental illness and suddenly try to identify the "true reason" for his actions, scrapping through his life history.
Everyone in my mentions calling me a bitch, discriminator, and and apparently race baiter needs to ask themselves why bringing up a well documented phenomenon of how we treat narratives of mental health in relation to race is making them mouth froth.

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America we need to talk about the #SeaTac highjacker and how we discuss mental illness in relation to actions.
Please remember that mental illness is NOT an excuse for actions that harm or threaten the safety of others.
A thread by someone who with mental illness.
Now before you all jump in here and screech about how I am attacking mental illness and demonizing it --- no. Not at all.
Mental illness twists your mind, it twists your reality in many, many ways. We need better mental health access in America. Hands. Down.
We need to have more dialogues about it. Not just in times of chaos -- like now, but on an average Thursday.
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Yall been told thousands of times. Remember Dan in accounting who all the women didn't want to be alone in the break room with? But you said he was "socially awkward"?
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