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How should left criticism talk about mental illness?

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Carl Beijer
Dec 04, 2015
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Particularly in the last day or so, the American left has seen a lot of behavior that one might be tempted to describe as “crazy”. For example – to drop another plug for her fantastic Baffler piece – Amber A’Lee Frost describes the ongoing “Bernie Bro” smear campaign against Sanders supporters as “histrionic”. Elsewhere, I described game show personalit…

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