Unfriendly fucking reminder that the best predictor of mass shootings is not mental illness, but being an angry young white man who has recently experienced rejection and has easy access to guns.

I 100% agree with your points on mental illness, but race and gender are entirely unrelated and tying them into your argument just inspires discrimination. I am not a white male, and that is the demographic which is involved in school shootings most often, but it’s wrong to target any race or gender and criminalize them. It takes away from the message you’re trying to spread about mental illness and makes you seem like a bigot. If you want people to listen be a bit nicer

Oh man where do I start.

Sweetie, I invite you to go back there and point out just where I talked about “criminalizing” anything. What I am concerned with is stopping murder. Which means when a wildly disproportionate number of shooters comes from a single demographic, it’s about time to admit that there are some underlying factors there. Maybe even time to admit that catering to and justifying white men’s violence at everyone else’s expense is a super shitty thing to do and we need to stop doing it.

What exactly is your plan? Throw up your hands and let more kids die because oh, gee, it would be unfair to look at the structural factors that play into these things? Tell me, how fucking fair is it that people like me get shot because nobody is willing to examine the prejudices I’m calling out there? How fair is it that existing while mentally ill can get me locked up indefinitely or killed, whether or not I’ve done anything wrong?

As for the tone policing: If you’re not willing to stand with mentally ill folks because we didn’t abase ourselves before you properly, you were never our fucking ally. If “you didn’t ask nicely!” means more to you than “people are fucking dying because of this,” then your priorities are flat-out wrong and disgusting.

#glenjamin1616 #tone policing bullshit #ashlyn is so tired of being 'politely' told to sit down and shut up