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The fact that some people, even some Asians think that racism against Asians isn't a real problem is what pisses me off the most.
Yeah, this person needs to be locked up in a psych hospital. >

I live in Bloomington and work in mental health and am sad to say our mental health resources around here are both overwhelmed and underfunded. The local resources are terribly understaffed and massively overdemanded. The CMHC around here that handles most homeless and Medicaid clients has only a handful of therapists and hundreds of folks on the wait list. 
I recently transitioned to a private practice setting, and stories like this make me regret it. While I may not treated this specific person, certainly they have had an intake at the CMHC I worked at, and certainly they were told to wait for months to see someone. The police are good at getting folks into an intake when it's a mental health problem. Maybe I could've made it a few weeks instead. This shit sucks man. >

Thats true everywhere in the US mental health is basicly invisible to moat people and or corporations. We need some real healthcare reform and fast. >

We all say "go get help!". But there is minimal infrastructure to support mental health problems as it is. Children (in a state that is one of the best for education) need to wait weeks in the emergency room for mental health treatment when they are in active crisis (suicide attempts, aggressive behavior). >

Not only that, but bringing it up inherently gets you treated like a criminal / danger to yourself and society.
For example, my wife was honest on her Post-Partum survey after having our second child; instead of supporting her and getting her someone to talk to, they wanted to take away all her belongings including her phone and phone cord. I got so upset at the hospital staff and the officer on duty. Screw that inhumane, disconnected, liability-based form of action. Treating a new mom like a danger is a great way to ADD to the depression and isolation, and is wholly detrimental to the supposed client-doctor relationship. >

Jesus that's terrifying. What circumstances did you seek PPD help? My mother had it, I have depression, I'm low key expecting it for myself.  I'll probably quietly manage it with my current therapist and psychiatrist. >

To answer your question directly, we did not seek the PPD support, the PPD questionnaire was 'required' by the hospital, and when the nurse saw my wife's initial answers she even was like "are you sure you want to answer this way" ... but that's so backwards if you understand mental health at all. 
People already have anxiety and extreme reservations about sharing their feelings for fear of being judged or persecuted, and then the systems in place are designed to protect private entities, thus the individual is tossed to the wayside metaphorically. 
Yes, I unfortunately have to agree with staying "quiet". When you are in the care of a hospital, they only care that their reputation is not damaged by someone going off the deep end and causing chaos and injury. PPD is real; just stay informed, have a good support network, and manage your thoughts and feelings responsibly. Easier said than done for sure, but getting the "system" involved is a good way to get treated like a mental patient instead of like a normal human with emotional needs. >

Thank god for the witness who bravely followed and reported this suspect. >

Actually kudos to the witnesses bravery and valour. It's good that he did not support this crime and reported it to the concerned authority. Justice should be granted. >

How do you live that long and one day decide to start stabbing? >

Escalation and radicalization from Fox News, NewsMax, Twitter, Truth Social, Facebook, Maga Rallies, Q Anon, Rush Limbaugh, PragerU, Joe Rogan, OAN, a whole cesspool of awful podcasts, every republican press release, etc.  
For years and years now, people have been told (by sources THEY trust) that 
- Democrats are murdering babies (sometimes MILLIONS per week... and sometimes they eat them!)


that millions of Mexicans are coming across the border with drugs and guns to rape women and steal your job, 


that Jews secretly control the money and the media, 


that all Muslims are radical terrorists who are just one plane ticket away from another 9/11, 


that LGBTQ people are actually perverted pedophiles who are "grooming" your kids, 


that China invented a bio-weapon in covid and every Asian/Asian-American person you see is a secret double agent who is in on it and could infect you right now (but it's also a hoax by Dr Fauci to sell... something?)


and the liberal elite want to take away your freedom to turn the USA into a communist gulag. 


It's been a non-stop barrage of this bullshit for a long long time.  Nevermind that there's no sources or even logic to back any of it up; it's fear-mongering.   They tell the same lies every day and each con artist backs each other up to make it seem like it's coming from multiple sources. Every day, the same lies, the same twisted stories or straight up fake ones.  So, it slowly radicalizes mostly regular folks (usually uneducated poor white people) into believing they are under attack and that violence is the only way to defend themselves and their country.  They hear about being under attack and that our country is being destroyed and that our freedom is at risk and over and over and over and over from different angles multiple times a day until it feels like it's inescapable. 
It'd be impressive if it wasn't so vile and destructive. >

And it's all projection.
How about that? >

Her ugly ass smirk makes me ill. >

She looks so proud of herself. >

Wait til she finds out her stupid remark about one less person to blow up our country makes her outburst a federal hate crime. Simple assault goes out the window. Welcome to federal prison. >

Not that it even matters, but like, that isn't even the right offensive racial stereotype. How thick are you that you can't even be racist enough to commit a federal hate crime correctly? >

Sikhs getting attacked after 9/11 is a pretty clear example that that kind of idiocy is widespread, sadly >

Happened in my town. His windows in his store kept getting broken. It was awful. Was the nicest person and helped everyone that came in that store. He gave up and left. 
The bad feeling it gave me hasn't diminished over time >

It got so bad in our suburb town on Long Island to the point where 7-11 and gas station owners were putting up signs in the windows and by the registers along the lines of:
"While we are of Middle Eastern descent, we do not condone the actions of extremist Muslim culture and sympathize with all victims of the attacks against OUR country.  Please do not [whatever bigoted nonsense people were perpetrating against them at the time].
It was really sad.  These people had been staples of the community for decades.  And because of their beliefs, skin color, and country of origin (hell, the majority of them weren't even Afghani), people took it upon themselves to dole out "justice" against them.
It kind of made me ashamed to be part of the demographic that was doing this stupid shit. >

Afganistan wasn't the country responsible for 9/11.
Still though, blind racism, as well as all forms of racism, really suck. >

Afghanistan was seen responsible for 9/11 because their taliban government was harboring Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
Iraq was the one not responsible for 9/11. >

cough cough Saudi Arabia... >

Bloomington Indiana not Minnesota. >

Bloomington, Indiana is generally a pretty nice town.  Now, Saint Paul Indiana could use some work. Definitely gotta say Minnesota has the nicer Saint Paul. >

It’s a nice town surrounded by rural areas. In much of rural Indiana, Trumpism remains very strong. Drove from Indy to Fort Wayne and saw tons of trump signs and stickers, anti-socialism, liberal hate, etc etc. >

Nahhhh... it's a nice university surrounded by a bunch of shitty towns >

I'll be honest, when I think of Bloomington I think of IU, so you're more right than I am. >

I'm not sure why the headline here is attributing the racism claim to the university when the text of the article confirms that racial motivation is called out in the charging documents. >

Yes it was a shitty use of a colon. >


shitty use of a colon.

I mean…yeah, that’s what colons are for. >

Racism is a fucking disease, man. Evil bitch! People who do shit like this for reasons like that have no place in our society. Edit : obviously im saying racism is wrong >

Meh. I’ve seen worse >

steve mnuchin as well. >

mitch mcconnell while we’re at it >

And that new deplorable douchbag in congress George Santos. His smug fucking face seriously angers me. >

Charlie Kirk too if we’re gonna keep it going. >

He face too small for he gotdamn head >

"Davis told police she stabbed the woman multiple times in the head with a folding knife, because it 'would be one less person to blow up our country.'"
Wonder where she got that kind of rhetoric. >

i thought it was the Muslims who blew things up to them? >

It’s all the same to people like her. >

Jesus, so hateful and awful and yet a hit funny. >

It was funny before it was so real.. >

That movie is from 2012. It was already very real then, and had been for a long time. >

Yeeah, true, but it definitely seemed to ramp up after 2016. >

2016 was the result of almost two decades of build-up. It can be traced straight back to 9/11 and the country's reactions to that. >

University: Student stabbed on bus because her attacker is an unhinged lunatic racist >

You forgot horrifically stupid. See her post in this thread... >

Wait, what? Where? >

This is what happens when you normalize racist thoughts and rhetoric >

I fucking hate living in Indiana >

Anti-China sentiment spilling over into hatred for anyone who looks Asian; only going to get worse from here as the rhetoric winds up. Same thing happened in the Iraq war era to anyone who looked even vaguely Middle-Eastern. >

Chinese-American here. My family has been here in the US since the early 1900s. Terrified of all the current rhetoric. We have no ties to China yet I’ve been told to “go back to China” several times.  I’m like, “mother fuckers - I am American. Deal with it.” >

Yeah to me it feels like we will forever be foreigners in our own country. I’m in Canada and I’ve heard “go back to your country” even from immigrants >

Yep. I’m pretty sure if I got deported to China the Chinese would tell me to go back to America 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️🤣 >

Mixed Asian here. Been dealing w this my whole life. At least now people are realizing it is a problem and calling it for what it is. Sick and tired of it.