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pegothejerk t1_is58ztl wrote

Reply to comment by AggregatedAggrevate in Iranian official admits that student protesters are being taken to psychiatric institutions by AggregatedAggrevate

Reminds me of the push online and in conservative circles in the US to call all lgbtq and especially trans people mentally ill.

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Then_Campaign7264 t1_is5dd42 wrote

Medicalizing difference and dissent is a profoundly dangerous violation of human rights. It is particularly egregious because they are attempting to control and denigrate what they don’t understand or experience at a huge cost to the lgbtq community.

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Painting_Agency t1_is5mgo8 wrote

And the USSR's use of psychiatry against dissidents, on the premise that opposing a worker's paradise obviously meant you were nuts.

Just more evidence of "horseshoe theory", or "authoritarianism doesn't care what it believes".

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amateredanna t1_is5xz1n wrote

And drapetomania - the 1800s idea that slaves that tried to escape had to be mentally ill, because a sane slave would understand how good they had it.

When it comes to oppression, there really is nothing new under the sun.

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