tcrowe is known to me for his past behaviour of harrasing lgbtq members of the node.js core development team and stalking them on social media. very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it.
Why wouldn't it be? The salience of the topic, as well as the generally pro-inclusivity point of view in much of the IT world (as far as I can tell) would make it a prime topic of weird conspiracy theories to a brain that is prone to creating them.
EDIT: also it's still fair enough to be critical about these things. schizophrenia is no 'excuse' in that sense.
I'm not defending said theories at all, just saying that my experience with schizophrenics is that they are very much influenced by the topics that are relevant in their surroundings.
It's easy to empathize with the mentally ill as long as they don't personally affect you and/or your high horses.
I'm not sure why you are equating a single person, who is clearly mentally ill, posting prejudice comments to all prejudice comments as being associated with mental illness.
This is the biggest straw man argument I've heard today.
I’m not sure why you’re talking about mental illness like a vague catch all term when talking about someone, nor why you’d dismiss a person with a statement like “mentally ill person says mentally ill things.”
Research and clinical communities can better determine whether some classification occurs frequently with some symptom. Or were your HN comments meant to further those efforts?
EDIT: also it's still fair enough to be critical about these things. schizophrenia is no 'excuse' in that sense.
I'm not defending said theories at all, just saying that my experience with schizophrenics is that they are very much influenced by the topics that are relevant in their surroundings.
It's easy to empathize with the mentally ill as long as they don't personally affect you and/or your high horses.