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[deleted] t1_j66bjyc wrote

Reply to comment by EducationalElevator in 8-month-old baby injured in Duxbury family tragedy dies, DA says by Jezebels_lipstick

You don’t see this level of sympathy when your run of the mill homeless mentally ill person kills someone.

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zumera t1_j66mwxz wrote

But you should. And frankly, this is part of the problem with the version of “destigmatization” that’s currently popular where everyone pretends that mental illness couldn’t possibly make people do things that they would never do if they were well.

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Visible-Education-98 t1_j66rd97 wrote

Not even homeless, just not living in the right town is enough for you to not get sympathy for being mentally ill.

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directtodvd420 t1_j66yxb4 wrote

Seriously. This Duxbury mom is getting lots of grace that say a Taunton mom wouldn’t.

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LadyGreyIcedTea t1_j6g49rk wrote

If this case had been a single black mother from Dorchester as opposed to a married white woman from Deluxebury there would be none of this sympathy and immediate assumption of PP psychosis.

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Present-Structure-98 t1_j6fx2bp wrote

I find it hard to have sympathy for someone that just killed her own children PPD or no PPD.

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