He's as mentally ill as every other rightwing Republican.

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5. I'm not pissed because they assume Roof is mentally ill

I'm pissed because of the latent and not so very well hidden prejudice and chauvinism that casts the mentally ill as icons of badness.

It just runs through DUers fingers onto the internet with no thought that they are spreading and maintaining the mindset that has real consequences in discrimination.

This place won't stand for LGBT slurs, or slurs against women, or ethnic minorities (and it shouldn't). But it's perfectly ok to do with the mentally ill.

And it wouldn't matter much if it was just being called names or every couple months supposing some mass murderer's behavior has roots in a mental illness.

It's the day in day out industrial strength support for maintaining a system of language that encourages public attitudes that default to accepting discrimination against the mentally ill as the proper order of things.