When back-pedaling from blaming violence on mental illness, it is common to divide and conquer. "Oh, no, I didn't mean all people with mental illness, just people with ____" (Usually the blank is filled with schizophrenia and/or bipolar. But I've also seen other diagnoses, including PTSD, come up in these kinds of discussions.)
This is also not okay. Narrowing the group of people against whom you are stereotyping does not make the words any less discriminatory.
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In one of the Google alerts I saw today, someone suggested that the guy had Aspergers. (I didn't bother to read the whole article, just saw that much in the first paragraph given.) I'm thinking of deleting my google alerts for autism and Aspergers - all these foolish people's blogs on the subject are really depressing! Just one "expert" after another, most looking to make a buck.
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