James Tatsch was not charged with any crime. But when he was found unresponsive in an isolation cell at the Alcorn County Jail on Jan. 17, he had been locked up for 12 days. He died at the local hospital.
Tatsch was waiting for mental health treatment through Mississippi’s involuntary commitment process. Every year, hundreds of people going through the process are detained in county jails for days or weeks at a time while they wait for evaluations, hearings and treatment. They are generally treated like criminal defendants and receive little or no mental health care while jailed.
Mississippi Today and ProPublica previously reported that since 2006, at least 14 people have died after being jailed during this process. Tatsch, who was 48 years old, is at least the 15th. No one in the state keeps track of how often people die while jailed for this reason. The news organizations identified the deaths through lawsuits, news clips and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation reports. MBI investigates in-custody deaths only at the request of the local sheriff or district attorney.
Conservatives are not able to see others as humans. Empathy is simply not a conservative trait. As such, conservatives should never be considered appropriate choices for leadership positions. The result is always oppression and death. Always. This has been true throughout human history.
These innocent people were killed by conservatives just being conservatives.
Conservatives are driven by fear. It’s hard to show empathy when you see others as a constant threat.
“We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala”
And as we all know, liberalism and conservatism are the only forms of politics.
“I refuse to understand that in the political mainstream of American shorthand liberal generally refers to the center and left of the political spectrum as Republicans have made themselves such a massive threat to democracy that Progressives, Centrists, and Leftists (actual leftists, not the white highschool and college kid bougeyviks who see everyone else as expendable if it means anyone to the right of Pol Pot are made to surrender to the intellectual superiority in which they remain ever euphoric) are forced to share the same political apparatus for risk of the spoiler effect.”
It absolutely fucking doesn’t refer to the left lol
It does in America. Any suggestions it doesn’t are predicated on “bErNiE wOuLd Be A cEnTrIsT iN hUnGaRy!” type idiocy, or on the fact that Europeans use it to refer to what Americans call libertarian.
Either way, it’s based on Eurocentrism.
Liberals in America are just right wing anti-communists, they’re not leftists at all. As for Bernie, social-democracy is the moderate wing of fascism and that’s why he supports Biden’s genocide.
social-democracy is the moderate wing of fascism
Lol. I guess if your goal is to muddy the waters and confuse people about the definitions of words, then well done.
“Social Democracy is the moderate wing of fascism.”
Pure bougeyvik nonse. Quite literally too, the line originates with the Bolsheviks because nordic socialist parties split with the internationale on letting Stalin boss everyone around.
You’re parroting anti-leftist talking points spawned out of a temper tantrum thrown by the guy who got caught with his pants down in WWII because he still thought he was negotiating with the axis to join in exchange for Bulgaria and Turkey.
I’d ask how it feels to be a useful idiot but the .ml lets us all know that you think the one college class you took for your minor in “read theory” makes you smarter than everyone else, particularly that working class you claim to be an ally with while actively talking over them about what their interests are.
They are? What a strange thing to say.
That’s how the study measures politics, I’m just making fun of it.
That is a gross generalization that contributes to the “us” v “them” idea. Plenty of people see others in the abstract until they are faced with it. And there is a small group of humans who don’t care. Don’t make things worse with this bullshit.
Calling out conservatism for its cruelty is not “making things worse”. It is not divisive to point out the root of oppression. Resisting oppressors should not be discouraged.
Conservatives are the core of the world’s most horrific problems. They resist any attempt to address global warming. They gleefully support oppressive governments. Conservatives openly engage in racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, antisemitism and other bigotry. Conservatives are doing this. Not their victims.
First of all, I never blamed victims.
Secondly, you didn’t call it out for cruelty, you said “they” lack empathy, and “cannot see others as human”.
This is patently false and harmful. Try as you might, they’re not xenomorphs.
I listed numerous examples to illustrate the ways conservatives lack empathy. There is nothing “patently false” about it. They lack empathy. They see empathy as weakness to be exploited.
I think you are giving a great deal of credit to those who don’t even want it.
I think you may have only met some extraordinarily harmful people or you have read too much of the Internet. Go meet a super strict conservative at the table. Shit, go out and make friendly conversation with a white supremacist. People can have awful beliefs for soooo many reasons but they’re still people with all the feelings you keep trying to deny them.
The phobias you mentioned aren’t really about empathy to begin with - a decade ago, they were about fear. Hence the name. And you haven’t admitted to your false claim of me blaming victims.
Quit demonizing swaths of people based on gross generalizations, dude. You’re adding to the bullshit that hurts us all.
Patently false, or patently obvious? I’ve been following politics for about 24 years now and my observations overwhelming point to conservative values being horrific, inhumane, and quite frankly stupid.
Conservative values are not conservative people. Hate the ones running the show, not the idiots following them.
Or sure, hate the idiots for being idiots, but that’s as useful as yelling at a brick.
I agree in principle but it’s really hard to care about the distinction when those people are actively destroying my country with their idiocy and cruelty.
I 100% agree. But the dehumanizing comments like the one I originally responded to are just as useless. Fuck the assholes for falling for the same God damn cons each time, for hurting everyone with their beliefs. But they’re still people.
And if you want to look at it in a cold and calculated way, their idiocy can be useful. You just have to play to their emotions like what the gop does. They’re idiots. It’s not hard to trick or train them.
A process of indirect cost-shifting may have led to a form of “re-institutionalization” through the increased use of jail detention for those with mental disorders deemed unmanageable and noncompliant.[19][20] When laws were enacted requiring communities to take more responsibility for mental health care, necessary funding was often absent, and jail became the default option,[21] being cheaper than psychiatric care.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_United_States
in the US the solution to mental health was locking people up in “institutions” staffed with doctors but now we have them locked up in what amounts to zoos and staffed with “correctional officers”
meanwhile we have Biden’s failed promise of police reform and healthcare
and Trump and Obama and the other presidents from years past on both sides have not helped to improve the situation either (maybe the people allowed to vote should look at other parties?)
articles like this come out all time and their meaning has been lost for a while now with no change in sight but still holding out on hope
