does promote prejudices.
Thanks to Time to Change they are bashing the mentally ill less. This
will be a significant step towards changing the stigma in the long term.
They will shift their attention to other prejudices.
I'm waiting for the headline that says "asylum seekers cause global
warming" because that's the sort of thing the Daily Mail would love.
I've just seen a recent headline that's aggravated me though. "Cocaine
Chloe kicked off the X-Factor." Why does that piss me off? Well if she'd
had any other mental illness some politically correct organisation would
have got in there and said they shouldn't be branding people with labels
which they would have done had the headline read "Psycho Subo" instead.
The same methods of immoral moral judgements pushed upon society through
the media that reinforced the stigma of other mental illnesses still
happens to drug users.
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