So this video popped up on my YouTube feed. WARNING: copoganda, murder, discussion of domestic violence. The tldr is that the woman accidentally killed her boyfriend, the boyfriend got arrested for a few domestic violence calls so 🤷, but then the woman goes completely white lady on the situation and denies any responsibility and argues every point like a 5 year old. Her lawyers all quit because they can't stand her, and people are chiming in the comments that they knew her IRL and that she was a massive a-hole in her town. One lawyer quit over professional differences, and other lawyers quit for different reasons.
I sorta think that maybe this woman sucks, but locking her in a box for 40 years isn't gong to help anything.
I will mention that I've been burnt hard by narcissists in the past. But once I've learned to spot them, they're just often sad. There's a few in my various communities, and we all just sorta manage and ignore them. Oh, maybe I'm wrong, but they often seem more rich than the general population.
How is it ableism? Do you think people like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are rendered less able by capitalism?
Sure, in a socialist society, they would get the help they need. But, speaking as someone who suffers from mental illness myself, narcissists have caused me a lot of suffering in my life while being fully aware of what they were doing and having more than enough material power to stop. They often target those with less socially acceptable mental illnesses, like Autism, so excuse me for finding it difficult to pity them.
Are Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk psychopaths and/or narcissists?
Associating clinical diagnoses with just randomly selected bad guys who on the surface seem to correspond to those diagnoses is definitely kinda ableist imo.
Edit: And also yes I am aware of overrepresentation in boss positions and shit like that, is that the only places that ASPD(the actual clinical diagnosis associated with "psychopathy") and NPD are overrepresented in society? Just from googling it seems like people with ASPD are also very likely to end up homeless or imprisoned, as well as suffering from substance addiction.
“Yes, mental illnesses can be stressful and cause issues in relationships with loved ones” and “no, mental illness does not make up a person’s entire personality nor does it make them inherently abusive or a bad person” are two statements that can and must coexist.
I recommend checking out this comrade’s comment if you haven’t seen it already: https://hexbear.net/post/259503/comment/3349538