CombatWombat

I dunno about your district, but we usually have some pretty good candidates through the DSA on our ballot: https://platform.dsausa.org/

Usually I roll my eyes pretty heavily at the WhateverPorn names for non-pornographic communities, but I suspect this one’s gonna be accurate more often than not.

My understanding is that it’s quite the opposite — a racist with Tourette’s would be less likely to shout a slur because they don’t feel the social stigma as keenly.

It’s not a coincidence, as far as I understand. The tics are involuntary, but they are specifically due to intrusive thoughts about what the most inappropriate thing to say right now would be. The blame here mostly lies with institutional racism for making that slur so awful; were it not available, I assume his tic would have focused on another terrible word, say “fuck”.

Edit: many Black folks I’ve listened to have said that they feel that in the we have defended this disability, we have erased the harm to Black folks they experienced. I hope I have not done that; I feel strongly that the harm the Black community experienced was real, independent of whether that harm was intentional from the speaker.

My condolences for your loss.

Capricious is my favorite adjective, rather than trying to ascribe mental disorders to global systems. If you’re asking regarding a specific human, you should talk to a psychiatrist — if it is disruptive to their life, it may be a sign of borderline personality disorder.

This use of bipolar has very little to do with the experience of most bipolar people. Bipolar rapid cycling is defined as four episodes per year, much closer to the change of the seasons than the change of weather from day to day.